diff tests/test-convert.t @ 30660:1f21a6835604

convert: add config option to copy extra keys from Git commits

Git commit objects support storing arbitrary key-value metadata. While
there is no user-facing mechanism in Git to record these values, some
tools do record data here.

Currently, `hg convert` only handles the "author," "committer," and
"parent" keys in Git commit objects. All other keys are ignored. This
means that any custom keys are lost when converting Git repos to
Mercurial.

This patch implements support for copying a whitelist of extra keys
from Git commit objects to the "extras" dict of the destination. As
the added tests demonstate, this allows extra metadata to be preserved
during the conversion process.

This patch stops short of converting all metadata to "extras." We could
potentially implement this via `convert.git.extrakeys=*` or similar.
But copying everything by default is a bit dangerous because if Git
adds new keys to commit objects, we could find ourselves copying
things that shouldn't be copied!

This patch also assumes the source key is the same as the destination
key. We could implement support for prefixing the output key to
distinguish it as coming from Git. But until this feature is needed,
I'm inclined to hold off implementing it.

--- a/tests/test-convert.t	Thu Dec 22 09:26:47 2016 -0800
+++ b/tests/test-convert.t	Thu Dec 22 23:28:11 2016 -0700
@@ -268,6 +268,13 @@
                     computation on large projects. The option is only relevant
                     if "convert.git.similarity" is greater than 0. The default
                     is "400".
+      convert.git.extrakeys
+                    list of extra keys from commit metadata to copy to the
+                    destination. Some Git repositories store extra metadata in
+                    commits. By default, this non-default metadata will be lost
+                    during conversion. Setting this config option can retain
+                    that metadata. Some built-in keys such as "parent" and
+                    "branch" are not allowed to be copied.
       convert.git.remoteprefix
                     remote refs are converted as bookmarks with
                     "convert.git.remoteprefix" as a prefix followed by a /. The