Greg, Can you not use a container for the python downloads? I'm sure you've seen this but just in case https://github.com/dusty-phillips/gitifyhg it says it needs python 2.7
regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 14:13, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A few years ago I ended up doing these manually and took the opportunity >> to upgrade our solutions/projects also. Didn’t find an easy or reliable way >> but that was at least 2 years ago from memory. >> > > Funny you should say that. After spending another futile hour wading > through crazy suggestions that involve tools that I can't find or don't > trust, and refusing to install the full Python runtime for other utilities > ... I think I'll just commit the current source directly into fresh git > repos without all the history and branches. I'll move the local copies of > the old Mercurial repos into an archive folder where I can refer to the > history if necessary. > > So basically, I give up and I'm taking the dumb blunt way out. > > The whole version control ecosystem is like the playground of asylum > inmates. > > *GK* >