Re: divand repository (hg to git)

[Carnë Draug]

On 11 December 2015 at 10:46, Alexander Barth <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Carnë,
>
> I would like to convert the divand source repository from hg to git. As far
> as I am aware I am the only person how has committed to the divand source
> code.
>
> I use several clusters for my computations and unfortunately hg is not
> installed on them. The disk-space available on the users' home directory is
> also quite limited and I tend to be always very close to maximum allowed.
> Installation of hg in my home directory is thus not a good option for me.
>
> I use also git for other projects and using to tools with similar but
> different syntax is also quite confusing.
>
> I don't care of the history is lost if this makes the conversion easier. I
> can also do it myself, if I get the rights to do so.
>

It is important that the history is kept, we need the revisions used to
make release of packages.

It is done:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/divand/ci/master/tree/

I done it by using mercurials hggit which allows you to simply do

    hg push git+ssh://...

Carnë