I've been constructing a space station, and up to this point, I've been using autonomous launch vehicles to put unmanned sections into orbit. But now it's time to have a permanent presence in orbit.
I've just docked my first crew transfer vehicle to the station hub, and now I want to transfer the crew to one of the Hitchhiker pods, but they don't want to seem to go through the docking ports I conveniently placed.
How can I move them onto the station without taking them on an EVA?
As of the latest version (.18), the ability to transfer crew via docking ports has not been implemented. Fuel can be transferred without a problem, but crew, unfortunately, require EVA to populate the habitation modules.
It is now possible to transfer crew members without EVA between docked ships.
The KSP wiki has a section explaining how at the bottom of the Crew page:
... in case of transfer option, we can click on an another cabin with free seat in the same craft or a docked together group ...
Not sure which version this was added, but the screenshot on the wiki is dated October 2014.
EDIT:
This was added in v0.25 - see the release notes on the wiki that has a section stating:
Crew Transfer
Kerbals in the same vessel don't need a spacesuit anymore to switch seats. Just click the crew hatch and select Transfer to tell them to go sit somewhere else.
While there's no stock way to do it as far as 0.20.1, there's a fan-made plugin that implements that functionality and more:
It also lets you pre-populate the Hitchhiker pods when you launch them, if you so desire.
Edit: still true as of 0.24
