title: interoperation between mercurial and subversion
body: <p>A <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/799860/using-mercurial-locally-only-with-subversion-server">similar question</a> has been asked recently, but is not the same.</p>
  
  <p>The Mercurial website has a <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WorkingWithSubversion" rel="nofollow noreferrer">detailed page</a> listing comparisons for 4 different options for getting Mercurial and Subversion to interoperate.</p>
  
  <p><strong>I am wondering if anyone out there has tried one or more of these, and could relate any really good or really bad experiences.</strong> The note on the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/durin42/hgsubversion/overview/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">hgsubversion download</a> says</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>hgsubversion is an extension for
    Mercurial that allows using Mercurial
    as a Subversion client. Right now it
    is <em>not</em> ready for production use. You
    should only be using this if you're
    ready to hack on it, and go diving
    into the internals of Mercurial and/or
    Subversion.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>which is about as inviting to me signs that say "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" or "Trespassers will be arrested". So I'm just wondering if this or any of the other alternatives are worth trying for someone who doesn't have a lot of extra time to hack around.</p>