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March 01, 2010, at 01:04 PM by 129.187.179.99 -
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Pushing/publishing the hg mirror

You can now publish the hg mirror like this:

to:

Improving the hg log regarding user names

Subversion and Mercurial user names differ. Typically with hg you rather use information resembling an email address than a system login name. To map Subversion user names to Mercurial user names you can provide a simple text file (let's name it authors.txt) with content like that:

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$ cd /path/to/project/hg-mirror $ hg push ssh://someuser@hg.example.com/path/to/project

to:

jdoe = John Doe <john@example.org> jdoe2 = Jane Doe <jane@example.org>

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If you always push to the same location, you can save some typing. Edit /path/to/project/hg-mirror/.hg/hgrc and add a value for default-push under section [paths]:

to:

Then add this when converting from Subversion, like that: hg convert --authors authors.txt svn-mirror hg-mirror

Pushing/publishing the hg mirror

You can now publish the hg mirror like this:

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$ cd /path/to/project/hg-mirror $ hg push ssh://someuser@hg.example.com/path/to/project @]

If you always push to the same location, you can save some typing. Edit /path/to/project/hg-mirror/.hg/hgrc and add a value for default-push under section [paths]:

[@

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