Re: [9front] 9front, git and mercurial.

[Jacob Moody <moody@mail.posixcafe.org>]

On 5/19/22 20:35, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
> As I said earlier in the thread, my script still has the "hg" commands.
> 
> I do have git installed.
> 
> I may try this suggestion tomorrow as it looks like that script contains 
> the logic to switch the repository to git.
> 
> 
> An update on my response to the other fork in this thread: I ran hg 
> update from /dist/plan9front and it updated 140 files, but 
> /bin/sysupdate still contains the hg commands.

You need to slow down and understand the state of your system.

First from your other response:

> abort: untracked file in working directory differs from file in
> requested revision: 'sys/lib/git/common.rc'

This is hg complaining that an update would thrash a file that your
current revision knows nothing about. Git didn't used to be tracked,
you installed it manually, now it's tracked. Uninstall your current version
and use the tracked one.

Updating is a two part step, you fetch updates from the remote(hg pull), then
you update your local files(hg update). As per your hg log posted earlier you
are up to date with the remote(you pulled at some point), you are just missing
the hg update step. When you attempted to earlier, it bailed due the issue you
posted about above. Fix the current tree then update again.

When you are updating you need to have the .hg folder bound onto the root.
.hg is stored in /dist/plan9front but when managing the source tree it expects
to be bound onto root. You can see this done in sysupdate. You can do the binding
manually like this:

bind -ac /dist/plan9front /

> I then did a cd /sys/src followed by mk all then mk install - no change 
> to /bin/sysupdate

Look at your namespace, /bin/sysupdate is a rc script.
It it not built from /sys/src it is bound directly in to /bin
from /rc/bin.