One step closer to git push to mercurial

In case you missed it, I'm working on a new tool to use mercurial remotes in git. Since my previous post, I landed several fixes making clone and pull more reliable:

  • Of 247316 unique changesets in the various mozilla-* repositories, now only two (but both in fact come from the same patch, one of the changesets being a backport to aurora of the other) are "corrupted" because their mercurial date have a timezone with a second.
  • Of 23542 unique changesets in the canonical mercurial repository, only three are "corrupted" because their raw mercurial data contains, for an unknown reason, a whitespace after the timezone.

By corrupted, here, I mean that the round-trip hg->git->hg doesn't lead to matching their sha1. They will be fixed eventually, but I haven't decided how yet, because they're really edge cases. They're old enough that they don't really matter for push anyways.

Pushing to mercurial, however, is still not there, but it's getting closer. It involves several operations:

  • Negotiating with the mercurial server what it doesn't have that we do.
  • Creating mercurial changesets, manifests and files for local git commits that were not imported from mercurial.
  • Creating a bundle of the mercurial changesets, manifests and files that we have that the server doesn't.
  • Pushing that bundle to the server.

The first step is mostly covered by the pull code, that does a similar negotiation. I now have the third step covered (although I cheated around the "corruptions" mentioned above):

$ git clone hg::http://selenic.com/hg
Cloning into 'hg'...
(...)
Checking connectivity... done.
$ cd hg
$ git hgbundle > ../hg.hg
$ mkdir ../hg2
$ cd ../hg2
$ hg init
$ hg unbundle ../hg.hg
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 23542 changesets with 44305 changes to 2272 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
2272 files, 23542 changesets, 44305 total revisions

Note: that hgbundle command won't actually exist. It's just an intermediate step allowing me to work incrementally.

In case you wonder what happens when the bundle contains bad data, mercurial fortunately rejects it:

$ cd ../hg
$ git hgbundle-corrupt > ../hg.hg
$ mkdir ../hg3
$ cd ../hg3
$ hg unbundle ../hg.hg
adding changesets
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: integrity check failed on 00changelog.i:3180!

2014-12-16 13:54:15+0900

cinnabar, p.m.o

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