Migrating from Mercurial to Git (and from Bitbucket to GitHub)

See this article.

Migrating from Team Foundation Server to Git

Use git-tfs.

Get a list of authors (including emails) from a repo

git shortlog --summary --numbered --email

Change current branch

# clear way (Git 2.23+)
git switch <branch_name>

# original, obscure way
git checkout <branch_name>

Sync a GitHub fork

This is all taken from GitHub’s excellent wiki, it’s just easier to find here.

Configure an upstream remote for your fork (once per fork)

# Check existing remotes
git remote -v

# Add upstream remote
git remote add upstream https://github.com/ORIGINAL_OWNER/ORIGINAL_REPOSITORY.git

Sync the fork

# Fetch upstream changes
git fetch upstream

# Make sure you're on main/master
git checkout main

# Actual merging of the changes, replace main with master if needed
git merge upstream/main

# Make sure everything gets on GitHub
git push

Specify a username when running git clone

In order to avoid errors such as fatal: Authentication failed for .... You’ll have to enter the password in a subsequent prompt

git clone https://<username>@server.com/path/to/repository

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Any and all console operations slow in git-lfs folder (e.g. anything from downloaded from Huggingface)

Run this to migrate the Git LFS pointer files present in the Git history out of Git LFS, converting them into their corresponding object files.

git lfs migrate export --everything --include .

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