Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository?

"Joachim Schmitz" [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks, but that requires Mercurial to be available, installed and in PATH.
I want to use git exactly because I don't have Mercurial (yet?)

That doesn't make sense.  If one wants to access a mercurial repository
the best way to do that is to use the facilities provided by mercurial.

Andreas.

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From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@linux-m68k.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:34 PM
To: Joachim Schmitz
Cc: 'Georgi Chorbadzhiyski'; git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository?

"Joachim Schmitz" [off-list ref] writes:

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Thanks, but that requires Mercurial to be available, installed and in PATH.
I want to use git exactly because I don't have Mercurial (yet?)

That doesn't make sense.  If one wants to access a mercurial repository
the best way to do that is to use the facilities provided by mercurial.

Not if you don't have Mercurial to begin with.
Git can access cvs and svn repos, right? And without having cvs/scv on the machine...