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Hg-Git: Git back end for mercurial

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Re: Hg-Git: Git back end for mercurial

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Nice to see Mercurial on HN — my favorite version control software (:

I remember years ago learning that in some way Mercurial repo functionality was a "superset" of Git, the main issue being Mercurial's "named branches" — you could not round-trip those through Git. But you can round-trip all Git stuff through Mercurial.

I wonder how this project deals with that? Or maybe something has advanced on one side or the other so now they can round-trip each other.

Re: Hg-Git: Git back end for mercurial

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Nice to see Mercurial on HN — my favorite version control software (: I remember years ago learning that in some way Mercurial repo functionality was a "superset" of Git, the main issue being Mercurial's "named branches" — you could not round-trip those through Git. But you can round-trip all Git stuff through Mercurial. I wonder how this project deals with that? Or maybe something has advanced on one side or the oth…

As git repos greatly outnumber hg repos (sadly:) it's enough to support all git functions to be useful. For example to work with github.