Git hg rosetta stone

The sympy git server is at https://github.com/sympy/sympy . The main Sympy repository may be cloned with git clone git://github.com/sympy/sympy.git.

The first and the most important thing is that you should understand that git is different. For example it uses staging area (so called index) for iteratively preparing commits. This and other great and unique features of git make it the preference of many developers, so go read its documentation!

git project page: https://git-scm.com/
git faq explaining many things: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq
make sure to read mails referenced from the faq -- they are really brilliant, e.g. Linus on git and renames
git wiki: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
git documentation: https://git-scm.com/doc

Here is a nice cheatsheet which will probably make your life easier in the beginning: https://jan-krueger.net/development/git-cheat-sheet-extended-edition

Being said all this, now comes a simplified mapping between hg commands and git commands. Use it with care -- there are some semantic differences ...

If you know how to use hg very well and just looking at how to do the same things in git, this page is right for you. Use it like a dictionary hg -> git. Some equivalent git commands may seem more complex than the corresponding hg counterparts; that's because the natural flow of work in git doesn't map 1:1 to Mercurial. But the point here is that if you are used to some specific workflow in hg, it can be directly translated to git using the table below and it does exactly the same thing as you are expecting it to.

When editing this wiki page, please only add an exact equivalent to some hg command; a full explanation can always be found somewhere else on the net.

Rosetta Stone

hg	git
hg cat -r rev some_file	git show rev:some_file
hg clone http://hg.sympy.org/sympy-git.hg	git clone git://git.sympy.org/sympy.git
hg clone -U http://hg.sympy.org/sympy-git.hg	git clone --bare git://git.sympy.org/sympy.git
hg diff	git diff HEAD
hg diff -r A -r B	git diff A^..B
hg status	git status
hg status -c	git ls-files -t \| grep '^H'
hg manifest	git ls-tree -r --name-only --full-tree HEAD
hg parents	git show --pretty=format:'%P' -s
hg commit	git commit -a
hg record	git add -p; git commit # or, for a more detailed interface: git add -i; git commit
hg email -r tip	git send-email HEAD^ # or: git format-patch HEAD^ ; git send-email 0001-Add-whitespace.patch
hg view	gitk, git gui
hg help command	git help command
~/.hgrc	~/.gitconfig
.hg/hgrc	.git/config
hg paths	git remote -v
editing paths in .hg/hgrc	git remote add name url # see "git help remote" for more info how to edit paths; alternatively, you can edit them by hand in .git/config too
.hgignore	.gitignore
.hg/hgrc [ui] ignore	.git/info/exclude
hg add	git add (note, it adds _content_ to index; can work on a hunk-by-hunk basis with -p!)
hg rm	git rm
hg push	git push
hg pull	git fetch
hg pull -u	git pull
hg addremove	git add -A (or: git add .; git ls-files --deleted xargs git rm)
hg revert -a	git reset --hard
hg revert some_file	git checkout some_file
hg purge	git clean -fd
hg purge --all	git clean -fdx
hg strip 2fccd4c	git reset --hard 2fccd4c^ (on a normal repository) git reset --soft 2fccd4c^ (on a bare repository)
hg forget	git rm --cached (reference: stackoverflow)
hg export	git format-patch
hg import --no-commit some.patch	git apply some.patch
hg import some.patch	git am some.patch
hg out	git fetch && git log origin/master..
hg in	git fetch && git log ..origin/master
hg update tip	git checkout HEAD # or this: "git checkout master", or "git merge FETCH_HEAD", depending on what you did before this
hg update -C	git checkout -f
hg update some.branch	git checkout some.branch # Note that "git branch some.branch" is not the same as this.
hg up --date 2014-01-01	git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --before="2014-01-01" master`
hg qimport	stg something (A separate patch manager extension is probably not necessary in git -- normal workflow combined with git rebase -i should cover your needs)
hg qpush	(see hg qimport)
hg qpop	(see hg qimport)
hg qimport -r tip	?
hg qnew -f some.patch	?
hg resolve -a -m	git add -u
hg root	git rev-parse --show-toplevel
hg log -G (old way: hg glog)	git log --graph --all --decorate # or: git log --graph --all;
hg verify	git fsck
hg branches	git branch -a
hg branch	git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
hg rollback	git reset HEAD~
hg backout	git revert

Setup

~/.hgrc:

 [ui]
 username = Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz>

~/.gitconfig:

 [user]
     name = Ondrej Certik
     email = ondrej@certik.cz

 [color]
     ui = auto

 [color]
     decorate = short

 [alias]
     ci = commit
     di = diff --color-words
     st = status

     # aliases that match the hg in / out commands
     out      = !git fetch && git log FETCH_HEAD..
     outgoing = !git fetch && git log FETCH_HEAD..
     in       = !git fetch && git log ..FETCH_HEAD
     incoming = !git fetch && git log ..FETCH_HEAD

More Information

One can find some info here:

and at many other pages.

Tips

 - use gitk to visualize history (much more capable than "hg vi")
 - use git gui to visually stage/unstage what you are preparing for commit
   to index (it too can work on hunk-by-hunk basis)
 - git stash is your friend
 - git rebase --interactive is your friend too :)
 - windows users: either use cygwin or msysgit:
   https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

 - don't try to project your usual habits - open your mind, and maybe you'll
   discover much more superior workflow. (yes, this needs hard work and RTFM,
   and being ready that FM sometimes differ from what software actually does)
 - Add this

 parse_git_branch() {
   git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* (.*)/(1)/'
   # __git_ps1 "(%s)"
   # use the second line instead if you have bash autocompletion for git enabled
 }
 PS1="w$(parse_git_branch) $ "

   to your promptstring to show current branch when in a git-tracked directory.
   (see http://b.lesseverything.com/2008/3/25/got-git-howto-git-and-github)

git -> hg conversion

You can use this script:

#! /bin/bash

work=`mktemp -t -d sym.XXX`
git format-patch -k -p -o $work master..HEAD
# add a new line after the subject line so that Mercurial imports it fine.
sed -i '4a\' $work/*
cd ~/repos/sympy.hg/
hg import $work/*
rm -r $work

to convert all patches between master..HEAD to mercurial repository sitting at ~/repos/sympy.hg/.

Alternatively, you could use the hg-git Mercurial plugin.

how to checkout remote branch

Start with some repository, for example create a new one from scratch:

$ mkdir sympy
$ cd sympy
$ git init

or clone our official repository:

$ git clone git://git.sympy.org/sympy.git
$ cd sympy

Now let's say you want to checkout some branch from git://github.com/certik/sympy.git. The canonical way is to add it to your remotes:

$ git remote add ondrej git://github.com/certik/sympy.git

Then fetch all branches from there into your remote branches:

$ git fetch ondrej

You can now list them with "git branch -r", or examine them with "git log ondrej/some_branch". Finally, to checkout the mpmath5 branch, do:

$ git checkout -b mpmath5 ondrej/mpmath5

hg和git命令对照表