create a new empty git repository (e.g. bitbucket)

sudo easy_install hg-git

vi ~/.hgrc [extensions] hggit=

hg showconfig cd ~/myproject-hg-repo/ hg bookmark -r default master

hg push git+ssh://git@bitbucket.org:USERNAME/REPONAME.git

If you need to prune some large files out first, use filemap by enabling hg convert:

vi ~/.hgrc [extensions] hgext.convert= hggit=

mkdir /home/USER/NEWNAME cd /home/USER/NEWNAME hg init

vi /home/USER/mymap.txt

by default / of the repo is included

if include it becomes an explicit include (all others are automatically excluded)

exclude "path/in/repo/to/dir" exclude "path/in/repo/tofile"

hg convert --filemap /home/USER/mymap.txt /home/USER/HGREPONAME /home/USER/NEWNAME

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension#A--filemap http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/migrating-to-mercurial.html#svn.filemap