Mirroring a HG project from Bitbucket to Github
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Is there an efficient workflow to mirror a project that is mainly hosted on bitbucket using Hg, to github?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
You could use a tool like hg-git to:
> - setup a Git repository somewhere that you have push access to,
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and then run
hg push [path]from within your project. For example:$ cd hg-git # (a Mercurial repository) $ hg bookmark -r default master # make a bookmark of master for default, so a ref gets created $ hg push git+ssh://[email protected]/schacon/hg-git.git $ hg push
> This will convert all our Mercurial data into Git objects and push them up to the Git server.
You can also put that path in the [paths] section of .hg/hgrc and then push to it by name.
Solution 2 - Git
If you use Mercurial for a project you can quickly and easily make a git mirror of your project so that git users can contribute. I created a tutorial about using hg-git to manage Mercurial mirrors on GitHub.
It covers how to get started with a GitHub account, how to push up a project from Mercurial to GitHub, and how to accept contributions (pull requests) from GitHub. Here's a link to the blog post: http://hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2009-11-09-create-a-git-mirror/ archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20100811223113/http://hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2009-11-09-create-a-git-mirror/
Solution 3 - Git
> 'git-remote-hg' is the semi-official Mercurial bridge from Git project, once installed, it allows you to clone, fetch and push to and from Mercurial repositories as if they were Git ones:
Add git-remote-hg to your bin path. Then you can mirror as mentioned on github.
git clone --mirror hg::https://bitbucket_repo
then, go into your cloned repo
git remote set-url --push origin https://github.com/exampleuser/mirrored
finally, sync your mirror
git fetch -p origin
git push --mirror
Solution 4 - Git
As of July 2013 there is BitSyncHub a web service for automating this process via a BitBucket post-receive hook. You will need to grant the service write permission to your GitHub repository though (add bitsynchub as a contributor).
Solution 5 - Git
I'm reporting from Feb 2019. I just encountered this problem, followed @vonc's suggestion to use hg-git, and filled a few missing steps to make it work. Here I'll provide a more detailed guide:
- Install hg-git by cloning its repository somewhere and making the 'extensions' section in your ~/.hgrc file look something like this:
[extensions]
hggit = [path-to]/hg-git/hggit
I found the most up-to-date installation instructions in the source repository: https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git. So keep an eye that.
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Install dulwich if not already:
pip install dulwich. -
Create a new empty repository on GitHub, for example https://github.com/user/git-mirror.
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Clone the hg source repository, and push it to the git mirror:
$ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/user/hg-source
$ cd hg-source
$ hg push git+ssh://[email protected]/user/git-mirror.git
Solution 6 - Git
One more available solution to quickly convert: https://github.com/frej/fast-export
Solution 7 - Git
You can use the Git-hg Mirror service to do this (including mirroring a GitHub repo to Bitbucket, or syncing bidirectionally).