Mar 1, 2012

Convert tfs repository to mercurial

The easiest way I’ve found to do it is the following:

  1. With the help of git-tfs tool convert tfs repository to git one with the following command:
    git tfs clone %FullUrlToYourTfsServer% $/%PathToProject%

    I suggest you to verify that your network connection to TFS is stable because this operation will take a lot of time and if it fail you will need to start from the beginning.
  2. Have hg installed (I’m using tortoisehg) and configure its ConvertExtension.
    In order to do that navigate to C:\Users\%UserName% and open mercurial.ini file, and add this at the end:
    [extensions] hgext.convert=
  3. Execute convert command on git repository with following command:
    hg convert -s git -d hg %PathToGitRepository%
  4. Have fun with hg

2 comments:

  1. I guess steps 2-4 are redundant. Nothing can prevent you from having fun with git :)

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