1887990 - [meta] Local workstation migration pathways

Status: NEW

(Conduit :: General, defect)

Description

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Document how to migrate local environments to new workflow. This may need some code but may just be a matter of documentation.

• Both mercurial and git users will need to migrate; mercurial for obvious reasons, git to move to the new repo and off git-cinnabar
• we will document the simplest approach: hg export → git apply (or whatever works with stacks, maybe git am)
• git: simplest case: git format-patch → git am

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4346 has steps to do in-place conversion between mercurial and git, FWIW (under "So, what's next?"). The git-to-git case is alluded to, and git-cinnabar will handle rewriting all the local branches.