pushing a git repo fails with error: contains '.git'

Question

I converted a few mercurial repos to git using the hg-fast-export tool and while all of them were converted fine, one produced the following error when I pushed the repo.

Answer 1

You can use the convert command with a filemap to strip the git repo from the repository. After that it will be gone from the history, and the repository will be safe for importing to git.

Example:

$ echo "exclude path/to/.git" > my-filemap
$ hg convert --filemap my-filemap originalrepo newrepo

Note that convert is a bundled extension which you first need to enable in your .hgrc like so:

[extensions]
convert =

For more information see hg help convert.