How to convert Subversion repository to Mercurial (Hg)–it’s easier than you think!

Converting SVN to Mercurial, while keeping all the commit history, might sound like a hard thing to do, but in fact it isn't! This functionality is already built into Mercurial, it’s just not enabled by default. I will be using BitBucket as the Mercurial repository host for this example. You will also need the latest version of TortoiseHg.Conversion is done using the command hg convert, however