From e2edb79bc2c2168aa7e656502a480d1a24190a24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rocco Rutte Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:12:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about SHA1 stability to readme Signed-off-by: Rocco Rutte --- README.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index d28a096..4959461 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -34,3 +34,12 @@ or any prior repository analysis: if just feeds what it finds into git-fast-import. This also implies that it heavily relies on strictly linear ordering of changesets from hg, i.e. its append-only storage model so that changesets hg2git already saw never get modified. + +Import and SHA stability +======================== + +Currently it's only supported to map one hg repository to one git +repository. However, all forks of a hg repo can be imported into one git +repo each and then merged together (e.g. as different branches in the +final git repo) since the checksums are stable, i.e. one particular hg +changeset always produces the same git SHA1 checksum. -- 2.11.4.GIT