On 04/05/2013 10:50:53 AM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Hello,
After talking with Rob on IRC, I decided to experiment with setting
up a github
mirror of the mercurial repository. The benefits, hopefully, would be
failover
plus easy access for those that like/prefer git.
Cool!
Here's how I set it up.
1. Setup the hg-git plugin
$ sudo easy_install hg-git
2. Edit ~/.hgrc to contain the following:
[extensions]
hgext.bookmarks =
hggit =
Ok, I pointed hggit = at my hg-git binary. I'm guessing that was the
wrong thing to do.
2. Clone the mercurial repo
$ hg clone http://landley.net/hg/toybox
3. Create an empty repository on github called toybox
4. In the mercurial working directory, make a bookmark of master for
default, so a ref gets created
$ hg bookmark -r default master
What is a bookmark? I never understood that part...
5. Push the repo to the new github location
$ hg push git+ssh://[email protected]:jhuntwork/toybox.git
You should obviously be able to see / checkout the repo from
https://github.com/jhuntwork/toybox
If you hg update and then re-push it updates the repo? (I've done one
commit today, small bugfix for -- option parsing.)
I haven't been able to test too much, but it seems that
pushing/pulling can go
either direction, assuming appropriate permissions are in place. To
push changes
from mercurial to github, it would essentially be:
$ hg update
$ hg push git+ssh://[email protected]:jhuntwork/toybox.git
To forward changes from github to mercurial, It should be able to
work like so:
$ hg pull git+ssh://[email protected]:jhuntwork/toybox.git
pulling from git+ssh://[email protected]:jhuntwork/toybox.git
["git-upload-pack 'jhuntwork/toybox.git'"]
importing git objects into hg
["git-upload-pack 'jhuntwork/toybox.git'"]
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
Hmm, I wonder if the conversion and hash generation is deterministic?
(If two people convert the repository into separate git repos and one
pulls from the other, it figures out which changes it already has? Or
do they have to pull from clones of the same converted git repo?)
$ hg update
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg push
pushing to http://landley.net/hg/toybox
searching for changes
remote: ssl required
I'm obviously using the wrong push scheme, plus I'm missing
authentication. :)
But I think this illustrates the use case.
You got farther than I did, but I tend to ask the wrong questions and
break stuff. (In this case, trying to actually put something after the
= in the rc file because I asked "what should go there"...)
It's coming up on 1am, but I'll try this in the morning and see if I
can actually put something in the old https://github.com/landley/toybox
directory. :)
Thanks,
Rob
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