From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21168 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2010 01:43:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 21158 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2010 01:43:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f41.google.com) (209.85.213.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:43:18 +0000 Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3so2331544ywj.0 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:43:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.54.13 with SMTP id c13mr9699191yba.331.1292982196212; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:43:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.143.20 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:43:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D115508.9000006@jifvik.org> References: <4D115508.9000006@jifvik.org> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 07:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mercurial users From: Daniel Berlin To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: Sourceware overseers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg00087.txt.bz2 On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > 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. =A0hg-g= it > 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. Nope, it's just hg-svn > > 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 >