Convert mercurial (hg) to git repository for bitbucket

To convert hg repository on bitbucket to git repository follow below steps.

• Create new repository with Repository Type selected as Git
• follow below commands with the assumption that you already have hg repository cloned on your system. If not then you first need to clone existing hg repository.

1:  $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git  
2:  $ mkdir <new git repo>  
3:  $ cd <new git repo>  
4:  $ git init  
5:  $ ../fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r <path to hg local repository>  
6:  $ git checkout HEAD  
7:  $ git remote add origin https://<username>@bitbucket.org/<username>/<new git repo>.git  
8:  or if you are going to use ssh authentication to push   
9:  $ git remote add origin [email protected]:<username>/<new git repo>.git  
10:  $ git push origin master  

This will convert your hg repository to git repository and it also maintains the commit history inside git repository.