From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4c83c9076f3de55d5a49deff52f0f37c@proxima.alt.za> <140e7ec30910010322j13a193b4j7b0bb9704cbb4604@mail.gmail.com> <20091001132324.GA8508@nipl.net> <20091002045200.GA16743@nipl.net> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:03:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60910020803v1204bb51y74fef853fb32d9d3@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd565187ee07a0474f5123b Subject: Re: [9fans] inferno from hg does not build out of the box Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c569c94-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd565187ee07a0474f5123b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM, roger peppe wrote: > 2009/10/2 Sam Watkins : > > could be removed if anyone fixes hg. > > from the way the mercurial guys go on about it, > it sounds like the fix might not be trivial. > it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it > seems to be something of a religious issue with them. > > hg doesn't do permissions (other than execute) either AFAIK. > > it's no substitute for tar. > > Wait, Hg can't deal with a directory with a file like ".keepme" and keep the directory!?! That's pretty silly. Or do the directories have to be 100% empty for this to work? --000e0cd565187ee07a0474f5123b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM, roger pe= ppe <rogpeppe@gm= ail.com> wrote:
2009/10/2 Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net&= gt;:
> could be removed if anyone fixes hg.

from the way the mercurial guys go on about it,
it sounds like the fix might not be trivial.
it does seem like a ridiculous thing, but it
seems to be something of a religious issue with them.

hg doesn't do permissions (other than execute) either AFAIK.

it's no substitute for tar.


Wait, Hg can't deal with a directory with a= file like ".keepme" and keep the directory!?! =A0That's pret= ty silly. =A0Or do the directories have to be 100% empty for this to work?<= /div> --000e0cd565187ee07a0474f5123b--