Mercurial users

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>]

Hi fellow overseers,

The eCos project is switching from CVS to mercurial. One of the things
that was discussed and promised when doing so is that we should be able to
use hg-git to provide a git view into the mercurial master.

Sourceware's current mercurial is a rather elderly 1.2.1, from rpmforge.
That is still the latest version available for RHEL 4 from rpmforge.
However to put it in perspective, the current mercurial is 1.7.2.  hg-git
isn't installed, and they recommend at least hg 1.3 in any case.

So I would like to upgrade sourceware's mercurial, either directly from
upstream sources, or from a rebuild of a more recent source RPM. I would
like to understand who already uses mercurial and how they use it, so I
can tell how they may be affected, warn them when I'm upgrading, and
obviously avoid any breakage should I do so.

I know that Daniel Berlin set up an hg readonly mirror of GCC. I assume
that being very temporarily offline would not be a problem. I am most
interested in projects where mercurial may be being used for write access.

Daniel, if you did anything non-standard I'd need to be aware of, please
let me know.

So please get in touch if you manage (or know of) a project using
mercurial. If no-one replies, I'll assume there are no other users :-).

Jifl