Can't push to upstream branches other than default

[dusty-phillips]

How can I list or pull a named branch from the upstream mercurial repository?

git branch -r doesn't list any of the mercurial branches, even after running git-fetch. Is git-remote-hg only able to handle the default upstream branch, or am I missing something incredibly obvious?

[felipec]

Do you have 'remote-hg.hg-git-compat' enabled? If so, named branches are not tracked, because that's what hg-git does. If you want named branch tracking you have to disable that.

[dusty-phillips]

Yes, disabling hg-git-compat allows me to fetch named branches. Guess I'll leave it off. :)

[dusty-phillips]

Hm, I closed it too soon, without testing. ;)

mkdir test
cd test
hg init
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "a"

hg branch feature
echo b > b
hg add b
hg commit -m "b"

cd ..
# USING SSH because of #8
git clone hg::ssh://localhost//home/dusty/testgitremote/test test-git
git branch -r
#  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
#  origin/branches/default
#  origin/branches/feature
#  origin/master
echo CC>b
git add b
git commit -m "CC"
git push
#To hg::ssh://localhost//home/dusty/testgitremote/test
# * [new branch]      branches/feature -> branches/feature
cd ../test
hg log
# The CC commit has been added, but it's on branch default, not feature

So it appears that while I can checkout and follow named branches, I am not able to push to them. #9 (unable to create remote named branches) is not a showstopper, but if I can't push to existing ones, I'm not going to be able to use git with my company's crappy HG workflow.

[felipec]

A very similar commit was pushed, please give it a try:
https://raw.github.com/felipec/git/fc/remote/hg-next/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg