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+# hg2git
+
+A wrapper script to convert a mercurial repository to git using `mercurial-git`.
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+hg2git ./my-mercurial-repo/
+```
+
+## Features
+
+- Handle necessary bare-repo intermediate state
+- Handle necessary master hg bookmark
+- Preserve ignored files in working directory
+- Clean up hgtags files
+- Partial conversion of hgignore to gitignore
+
+## Changelog
+
+2018-10-06 v1.0.0
+- Initial public release