I am trying to convert an SVN repository to Mercurial, but I'm having some troubles. These are the steps I've taken: (I am on Windows)
Turned on "convert" in the extensions
Opened a command window, and typed:
hg convert http://myversioncontrorepositoryhere
It says it's initializing the destination folder and then asks:
Enter username for Administration at http://myversioncontrorepositoryhere:
type my username then
in Administration at http://myversioncontrorepositoryhere:
I assume this is my password, but it just loops back to
Enter username for Administration at http://myversioncontrorepositoryhere:
What am I doing wrong? I'm very sure I'm typing in my username and password correctly.
I don't know what may be going wrong, but I'd like to suggest a workaround (which is the only way I've personally used for this task!): first svnsync the svn project to make a local mirror, then
hg convert
that local mirror -- that's what O'Sullivan suggests in his book (this URL has, as "sample from the book", exactly the relevant appendix for importing projects from other VCSs to hg -- with special emphasis on svn!), though his suggestion is mostly inspired by considerations of speed I suspect that following it has also saved me authentication and authorization hassles, and I hope it could do the same for you!-)