GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin

Re:GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin by pieter on Monday May 25, 2009 @10:05AM (#625451)

Presumably this changes the hashes? Is there some tool that converts git sha's to hg sha's, so you can still do something like `hg log <some git sha someone gave you>`? I guess that sort of stuff will cause the most confusion, just like local revision numbers can cause confusion (with hg and bazaar).

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Re:GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin by schacon on Monday May 25, 2009 @02:36PM (#625719)

There is a mapping from Git SHAs to Hg SHAs. Technically we could add a command to run an Hg log from a Git SHA since we have a one to one mapping, but it's generally easier to not have to really know what the Git stuff is. You should be able to work in Hg with all your normal workflow, but push and pull from a server with a git+ssh protocol instead of an Hg server. It should be mostly transparent for the Hg user, and a developer using a Git client should not be able to tell that commits authored by an Hg developer was even using Hg. The data stored by both systems are not hugely different.

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Re:GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin by pieter on Monday May 25, 2009 @05:23PM (#625898)

OK, but what about sha's you get from others? Someone references a sha in an email, or on IRC, or you find a reference to something in a bug report, or a gitweb search..

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