From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29228 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2010 01:32:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 29220 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2010 01:32:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from virtual.bogons.net (HELO virtual.bogons.net) (193.178.223.136) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:32:02 +0000 Received: from jifvik.dyndns.org (jifvik.dyndns.org [85.158.45.40]) by virtual.bogons.net (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.2) with ESMTP id oBM1VsW18276; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:31:54 GMT Received: from lert.jifvik.org (lert.jifvik.org [172.31.1.136]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jifvik.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873E73FE1; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:31:53 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4D115508.9000006@jifvik.org> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:46:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sourceware overseers Cc: dberlin@dberlin.org Subject: Mercurial users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q4/txt/msg00086.txt.bz2 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