http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/21/converting-a-google-code-project-from-subversion-to-mercurial/ http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/21/converting-a-google-code-project-from-subversion-to-mercurial/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:01:33 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=234 The Google Code support wiki article ConvertingSvnToHg is quite easy to follow, but there is one thing worth noting that is kind of buried in the comments.  Assuming you’re doing full history conversion, it is very useful to know that running hg convert locally is much much faster than running it on a remote SVN repository, so it is well worth using svnsync to make a local mirror of the SVN repository and then run hg convert on that.

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