Migrating Mercurial (Hg) repository to GIT

Here a just a few random notes to get you starting with the migration of existing Mercurial Hg repository to GIT without loosing history.
Read:

• http://www.mehdi-khalili.com/migrating-from-mercurial-to-git/
• http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/version-control/git-on-windows.html

Install:

• Git Windows client
• python install
• fast-script (hg-fast-export.sh)
• mercurial lib for Python (pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/55/c0/167c90e51d2bad39d466950a60c490d02c64128e787ecae6ef293c919763/mercurial-4.0-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl#md5=81b9e77d74907812cba53b811452561e)
• run in new Git repository (use Git Bash)
  – …/fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r c:/projects_HG/tfs/pixi-tools.hg/ --force
  – git checkout HEAD
  Done :)