Is there a way to use a Mercurial repository as Git submodule? (update)

Question

I would like to use a mercurial subrepo as as git submodule. I have followed the instruction posted to the exact same question here 1 . However even though all the setup steps completed successfully and without error when cloning the main repository and its subrepos I am running into errors.

Additionally the question at 1 is 5 years old and I am afraid git has changed a lot in that time and therefore I feel this question merits an answer

When I clone I run the following:

git clone --recursive

I get the following error:

Cloning into '/home/user/projects/mainrepo/project/hgsubrepo'... repository does not exist. fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

fatal: clone of 'git@bitbucket.org:mischief/ippan2.git/project/hgsubrepo' into submodule path '/home/user/projects/mainrepo/project/hgsubrepo' failed Failed to clone 'project/hgsubrepo'. Retry scheduled Cloning into '/home/user/projects/mainrepo/project/hgsubrepo'... repository does not exist. fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

If I interpret the results correctly git is trying to infer an remote URL for hgsubrepo but using git protocol not mercurial as I would expect given my understanding of the reponse in 1

Is there a different/better/new way to handle mercurial subrepos within git?

edit 1: the main repository lives in the local folder

/home/user/projects/mainrepo

the hg repository lives in

/home/user/project/mainrepo/projects/

Answer 1

Try git-remote-hg ; add 'hg::' prefix to the URL of mercurial repository.