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@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ by Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net> with hints and help from the git list and
#mercurial on freenode. hg-fast-export[1] was integrated into
bzr-fastimport by Ian Clatworthy with permission from Rocco.
+The current maintainer is Frej Drejhammar <frej.drejhammar@gmail.com>.
+
Usage
=====
-Using hg-fast-export is quite simple:
+Using hg-fast-export is quite simple for a mercurial repository <repo>:
bzr init-repo foo.bzr
cd foo.bzr
@@ -24,6 +26,10 @@ hg-fast-import supports multiple branches but only named branches with exactly
one head each. Otherwise commits to the tip of these heads within branch
will get flattened into merge commits.
+The way the hg API and remote access protocol is designed it is not
+possible to use hg-fast-export on remote repositories
+(http/ssh). First clone the repository, then convert it.
+
Design
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