Tag: version control

Migrating from Mercurial to Git (Migrating the People)

This is the second part of my “Git migration lessons learned”. In this post I will explain how moved the people from Mercurial to Git.

XKCD: How to work with Git
XKCD 1597 (https://xkcd.com/1597/)

This is the second part of my „lessons learned“ from our migration from Mercurial to Git. You can find the first part here.

Beside of the migration of the repositories itself, we kind of needed to migrate the teams also.

At first look, Mercurial and Git seem quite similar: Both are distributed version control systems, both have tags and branches and a lot of concepts are named equally.

Therefore we thought that this part would be easy, but the devil lays in detail, as always.

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Migrating from Mercurial to Git (The Technical Migration)

All project repositories in our software department were migrated to Git. Here is what I have learned from leading this migration project.

XKCD 1597 (https://xkcd.com/1597/)
XKCD 1597 (https://xkcd.com/1597/)

During the last year, my team and I migrated over twenty software projects and the teams, that develop them, from Mercurial to Git.

While this seamed like an easy job to me at first, I quickly realized the hidden challenges in this undertaking. In this post I will summarize our reasons, our approach and my experiences gathered in the process of migrating the code base while training the teams on the new git workflow in parallel.

This first part will concentrate on the technical migration while the second part will focus on the trainings.

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