[yt-dev] Exporting a pull request from BitBucket to GitHub

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Only comment is that if you run into trouble try installing hg-git from the
hg-git repo:

https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git

According to the maintainer it's overdue for a release.

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Here is the process I just used for exporting a pull request to GitHub.
> It went incredibly smoothly.  I will put this in a migration document as
> well.
>
> Step 0: Make sure you have hg-git installed (it is pip installable) and
> enabled in your ~/.hgrc .  Enabling it looks like this:
>
> [extensions]
> hggit=
>
> Now, here are the steps:
>
>  1. Fork http://github.com/yt-project/yt
>  2. In your yt source repository, update to the latest changeset of your
> pull request.
>  3. If it does not have a bookmark, create one with "hg bookmark". It can
> be something like "hg bookmark whatever_i_want_to_call_it"
>  4. Edit your .hg/hgrc in your yt repository.  Under [paths] add a github
> one.  For me, it looks like this:
>
> [paths]
> default = ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt
> ytanalysis = ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt
> gh = git at github.com:MatthewTurk/yt
> ghyt = git at github.com:yt-project/yt
>
> You will need to modify `gh` here.
>
>  5. Now, check what you're going to export.  "hg outgoing -r
> whatever_i_want_to_call_it gh" will show you.  Make sure that this matches
> what you anticipate.
>  6. If it all looks good, push it *with the bookmark*.  "hg push -B
> whatever_i_want_to_call_it gh" will do this.
>  7. Reopen the pull request on GitHub, and decline your pull request on
> BitBucket.
>
> Here is the one I just did: https://github.com/yt-project/yt/pull/1346
>
> This should make things very smooth to transition.  Since we're not yet
> *accepting* things on GitHub, I would encourage folks to start moving their
> long-term PRs.  (does that sound right, Nathan and Kacper?)
>
> -Matt
>
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