We are planning to move to TFS. While i hate it we have to do it for various reasons.
We have dev, staging and live branch. Do we move the source for each of the branch to TFS as separate folder and convert it to a branch later on?
Is it possible to take history along?
Is there a tool or a script which can do it?
I've not been able to find a way to convert directly from Mercurial to TFS. It looks like your best bet could be to convert your Mercurial repository to a Git repository and use git-tfs to push those changes to TFS.
I'm not familiar with Git or TFS so you'll have to do some more research to find out the exact steps but here's how I think that I'd go about it:
Convert your Mercurial repository to a Git repository (perhaps this will help)
Create your empty TFS repository
Clone your TFS repository using this page as a guide
Use git to push your converted Mercurial Git repository to the TFS Git repository
Use git-tfs to push those changes to TFS
I don't know if that will copy all the history over or if you'll just have one check in with the final copy of the code.
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to project manage a mercurial repository, and track issues.
The workflow I want to use for the mercurial repository is branch based, i.e people are welcome to create branches and push their branches to the designated server. However I want to restrict access to the default(trunk) branch, so that all changes are merged by me into the default(trunk) branch.
This will allow control over things like code-review for each branch before merging it to the default(trunk) branch
Is there any way to use redmine to manage permissions and access to mercurial repositories?
I think I'm looking to do something like gitflow
Redmine only allows you to work on a local clone of the repository as explained in their official guide Redmine Oficcial guide#Mercurial-repository .
So i think you cant restrict the access to the repository on the web via Redmine.
I'd like to pull a Mercurial web repository into my local filesystem to work. I used the following command but I get the error: Merucrial Repository (.hg directory not found). But my boss said Mercurial is installed in the machine.
hg pull https://username#web_repository_name
What is the proper way to get a working copy of a Mercurial repository?
You need to start by executing a clone of the repository, after which you can use pull to incrementally add new changes.
These are really the basics of Mercurial, so I would propose you read this tutorial, followed by this Mercurial guide.
So I have managed to corrupt my mercurial repo. So I am following the steps from the repository corruption page on the wiki to repair it.
When I run the convert command:
hg convert --config convert.hg.ignoreerrors=True REPO REPOFIX
It gives me the following output:
initializing destination REPOFIX repository
REPO does not look like a CVS checkout
REPO does not look like a Git repository
REPO does not look like a Subversion repository
REPO is not a local Mercurial repository
REPO does not look like a darcs repository
REPO does not look like a monotone repository
REPO does not look like a GNU Arch repository
REPO does not look like a Bazaar repository
cannot find required "p4" tool
Why on earth would it say that? And how can I go about fixing it?
It definitely is a mercurial repository, it's hosted on Bitbucket, and I am using Tortoisehg to manage it.
Edit:
I think maybe I can't do this against a remote repository? How can I go about fixing this then?
You probably did not corrupt the remote repository at Bitbucket, did you?
It's more likely you corrupted your local copy, and so you can just clone it from Bitbucket again or try the hg convert … trick on your local copy (i.e. the folder you manage with TortoiseHG).
A bit late but I faced the same issue. The mistake was running that command inside the project folder. You have to run the command outside the folder containing the .hg file. I could not find a way through TortoiseHg console to move up a directory so I used windows terminal.
A noob question... i think
I use Mercurial for my project on my laptop. How do i submit the project to an online server like codeplex?
I'm using tortoisehg and i cant find the upload interface for submit the project online...
From the command line, the command is:
hg push <url>
to push changes a remote repository.
In TortoiseHg, this is accessed through the "Synchronize" function, which seems to show up if you right-click in a Windows Explorer window but not on any file. It's also available in the workbench; the icon is 2 arrows pointing in a circle.
For these things, I find the best way to go is to use the command line interface - TortoiseHG is OK if you need to perform some common operations from the file browser, and it's a nice tool to visualize some aspects of your repository, but it doesn't implement all of mercurial's features in full detail, and it renames and bundles some operations for no apparent reason.
I don't know how things work at codeplex, but I assume it is similar to bitbucket or github, in which case here's what you'd do:
Create an empty repository on the remote end (codeplex / bitbucket / ...).
Find the remote repository's URL - for bitbucket, it is https://bitbucket.org/yourname/project, or ssh://hg#bitbucket.org/yourname/project.
From your local repository, commit all pending changes, then issue the command: hg push {remote_url}, where {remote_url} is the URL of the remote repository. This will push all committed changes from your local repository to the remote repository.
Since the remote's head revision (an empty project) is the same as the first revision in your local copy (because all hg repositories start out empty), mercurial should consider the two repositories related and accept the push.
For an introductory guide to command-line mercurial, I recommend http://hginit.com/
I'm new to Perforce and Mercurial, so bear with me. I would like to use Mercurial to interface with Perforce in the following way:
I check-out a local Perforce workspace using the P4V client. I then clone a Mercurial repo of that workspace, and use this cloned repo for all my work. When I need updated files, I would first update the local Perforce workspace, and then have the Mercurial repo pull from that. When I'm ready to commit, I push my changes to the local Perforce workspace. Then I use the P4V client to commit my changes in the Perforce workspace to the Perforce depot. Essentially, the local Perforce workspace is a proxy for the Perforce repot.
The reason behind this set-up (versus the common scenario of directly pulling from and pushing to the Perforce repot) is that there is some configuration I need to do via the P4V client (such as mapping/renaming files and directories).
I've looked at the convert and perfarce extensions, but I'm not quite sure they do what I want. They seem to do a one-time conversion, and then thereafter they talk directly to the Perforce repot. Any help would be appreciated.
Convert does an incremental conversion, where it will convert only new changes, but it's unidirectional only (perforce -> mercurial).
I've not looked at the perfarce extension, but it's my understanding that's it's built for a bi-directional, continuous process -- you might want to look at it again.
Alternately, the non-extension options on the Working with Subversion page in the mercurial wiki, details a process for using Mercurial alongside/atop Subversion w/o them interacting in any way except for the file working directory. That's probably very similar to what you're looking to do.
The Perfarce extension should do what you want. I'm also experimenting with a similar setup, and I can pull & push to Perforce quite happily.
I must admit I am having issues with local config files and how they operate in this environment, but there's a couple of other answers here on SO that appear to address this.
I would recommend you give Perfarce a go first, before reverting to anything more manual.