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diff --git a/exporters/hg-fast-export.README b/exporters/hg-fast-export.README deleted file mode 100644 index a5999de..0000000 --- a/exporters/hg-fast-export.README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -hg-fast-import.py - mercurial to bzr converter using bzr fast-import - -Legal -===== - -Most hg-* scripts are licensed under the MIT license[0] and were written -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 for a mercurial repository <repo>: - - bzr init-repo foo.bzr - cd foo.bzr - hg-fast-import.py -r <repo> | bzr fast-import - - -Notes/Limitations -================= - -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 -====== - -hg-fast-import.py was designed in a way that doesn't require a 2-pass mechanism -or any prior repository analysis: if just outputs what it finds. -This also implies that it heavily relies on strictly -linear ordering of changesets from hg, i.e. its append-only storage -model so that changesets hg-fast-import already saw never get modified. - -Todo -==== - -Test incremental imports, particularly handling of branches and tags. - -For one-time conversions, everything should be fine. - -Footnotes -========= - -[0] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php - -[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git |