Create fast-export package from Mercurial repository

Question

I'm trying to find the way to fast-export a hg repository and dump the result into a fast-export compatible format file.

Basically I want to do the same that I can do with Git or Plastic SCM:

git fast-export --all -C --tag-of-filtered-object=drop --signed-tags=strip > Repository.fast-exported


cm fast-export MyProject@PlasticSCMServer:8087 Repository.fast-exported

I know I can do the fast-export/fast-import directly into Git using the hg-fast-export.py tool (http://hedonismbot.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/hg-fast-export-convert-mercurial-repositories-to-git-repositories/) but I'm wondering if I can create the dump file.

Answer 1

Have you looked at this project? The fast-export.sh script works by piping the output of the hg-fast-export.py python script into git fast-import. If you wanted to save the dump file, you could simply run the same command and direct the output to a file.