Pull/Clone a svn repository into hg with new default branch name?
- by TheLQ
I'm forking a project's SVN repo and need to integrate into my Mercurial repo. To keep things simple I have a local hgsubversion repo and a local hg repo. However both the mercurial and hgsubversion repo uses default as their default branch name. My goal here is to put the original code and updates on one branch and my code on the default branch
However I have yet to be able to do this.
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg clone http://*HG_SITE*/hg .
no changes found
updating to branch default
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg branch blizzard
marked working directory as branch blizzard
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg commit
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg log
changeset: 0:be13a9580df0
branch: blizzard
tag: tip
user: Leon Blakey <[email protected]>
date: Fri Jan 14 23:44:25 2011 -0500
summary: Created Blizzard Branch
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg pull http://*SVN_SITE*/svn/
pulling from http://*SVN_SITE*/svn/
....
pulled 23 revisions
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg branch
blizzard
W:\programming\tcsite-svn-test>hg branches
default 23:93642a8890ab <------
blizzard 0:be13a9580df0
Not surprisingly, hgsubversion puts pulled commits into the default branch when I really need them in the blizzard branch. From the docs, there is no way to rename the branch that a commit came from.
Frustratingly I can't even come up with a way to do it on a repo with only the hgsubversion repo being pulled from, nothing else. All commits are tied to that one branch no matter what.
Is there any suggestions on how to pull changes from an SVN repo and rename the branch to something else?
