Pro Git
Pro Git The -r flag tells hg-fast-export where to find the Mercurial repository we want to convert, and the -A flag tells it where to find the author-mapping file. The script parses Mercurial changesets and converts them into a script for Git’s "fast-import" feature (which we’ll discuss in detail a bit later on). This takes a bit (though it’s much faster than it would be over the network), and the output is fairly verbose: