Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get version 0.5.11 on github. Or get version 0.6.0rc2 on github.

What’s new in 0.5.11?

• Fixed compatibility with python 3.11.
• Disabled inexact copy/rename detection, that was enabled by accident.
• Updated git to 2.38.1 for the helper.

What’s new in 0.6.0rc2?

• Improvements and bug fixes to git cinnabar self-update. Note: to upgrade from 0.6.0rc1, don’t use the self-update command except on Windows. Please use the download.py script instead, or install from the release artifacts on https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/releases/tag/0.6.0rc2.
• Disabled inexact copy/rename detection, that was enabled by accident.
• Removed dependencies on msys DLLs on Windows.
• Based on git 2.38.1.
• Other minor fixes.

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.10?

• Full rewrite of git-cinnabar in Rust.
• Push performance is between twice and 10 times faster than 0.5.x, depending on scenarios.
• Based on git 2.38.0.
• git cinnabar fetch now accepts a --tags flag to fetch tags.
• git cinnabar bundle now accepts a -t flag to give a specific bundlespec.
• git cinnabar rollback now accepts a --candidates flag to list the metadata sha1 that can be used as target of the rollback.
• git cinnabar rollback now also accepts a --force flag to allow any commit sha1 as metadata.
• git cinnabar now has a self-update subcommand that upgrades it when a new version is available. The subcommand is only available when building with the self-update feature (enabled on prebuilt versions of git-cinnabar).

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.9?

• Fixed exceptions during config initialization.
• Fixed swapped error messages.
• Fixed correctness issues with bundle chunks with no delta node.
• This is probably the last 0.5.x release before 0.6.0.

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.8?

• Updated git to 2.37.1 for the helper.
• Various python 3 fixes.
• Fixed stream bundle
• Added python and py.exe as executables tried on top of python3 and python2.
• Improved handling of ill-formed local urls.
• Fixed using old mercurial libraries that don’t support bundlev2 with a server that does.
• When fsck reports the metadata as broken, prevent further updates to the repo.
• When issue #207 is detected, mark the metadata as broken
• Added support for logging redirection to a file
• Now ignore refs/cinnabar/replace/ refs, and always use the corresponding metadata instead.
• Various git cinnabar fsck fixes.

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.7?

• Updated git to 2.34.0 for the helper.
• Python 3.5 and newer are now officially supported. Git-cinnabar will try to use the python3 program by default, but will fallback to python2.7 if that’s where the Mercurial libraries are available. It is possible to pick a specific python with the GIT_CINNABAR_PYTHON environment variable.
• Fixed compatibility with Mercurial 5.8 and newer.
• The prebuilt binaries are now optimized on arm64 macOS and Windows.
• git cinnabar download now properly returns an error code when failing to extract the prebuilt binaries.
• Pushing to a non-empty Mercurial repository without having pulled at least once from it is now prevented.
• Replaced the nagging about fsck with a smaller check always happening after pulling.
• Fail earlier on git fetch hg::url <sha1> (it would properly fetch the Mercurial changeset and its ancestors, but git would fail at the end because the sha1 is not a git sha1 ; use git cinnabar fetch instead)
• Minor fixes.

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.6?

• Updated git to 2.31.1 for the helper.
• When using git >= 2.31.0, git -c config=value ... works again.
• Minor fixes.

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Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.5?

• Updated git to 2.29.2 for the helper.
• git cinnabar git2hg and git cinnabar hg2git now have a --batch flag.
• Fixed a few issues with experimental support for python 3.
• Fixed compatibility issues with mercurial >= 5.5.
• Avoid downloading unsupported clonebundles.
• Provide more resilience to network problems during bundle download.
• Prebuilt helper for Apple Silicon macos now available via git cinnabar download.

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Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.4?

• Updated git to 2.26.2 for the helper.
• Improved experimental support for pushing merges.
• Fixed a few issues with experimental support for python 3.
• Don’t complain the helper is outdated if it’s newer.
• Auto-enable graft when cinnabarclone contains a graft that can be fulfilled.
• Exclude git-cinnabar notes and git-filter-branch backups from graft candidates.
• Graft failures are more now silent.
• Fixed handling of a null manifest.

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Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.3?

• Windows helper is dynamically linked against libcurl again. Static linkage was causing more problems than it was fixing.
• Fix clonebundles support to ignore stream=v2 bundles.
• Ignore graft cinnabarclones when not grafting.
• Fixed a corner case where git cinnabar fsck would not skip files it was meant to skip and failed as a result.

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.

Get it on github.

These release notes are also available on the git-cinnabar wiki.

What’s new since 0.5.2?

• Updated git to 2.25.0 for the helper.
• Fixed small memory leaks.
• Combinations of remote ref styles are now allowed.
• Added a git cinnabar unbundle command that allows to import a mercurial bundle.
• Experimental support for python >= 3.5.
• Fixed erroneous behavior of git cinnabar {hg2git,git2gh} with some forms of abbreviated SHA1s.
• Fixed handling of the GIT_SSH environment variable.
• Don’t eliminate closed tips when they are the only head of a branch.
• Better handle manifests with double slashes created by hg convert from Mercurial < 2.0.1, and the following updates to those paths with normal Mercurial operations.
• Fix compatibility with Mercurial libraries >= 3.0, < 3.4.
• Windows helper is now statically linked against libcurl.