From: Benjamin Peterson <bp@benjamin-peterson.org>
To: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:41:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389883299.24740.71559021.64C873AD@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha94b852.fsf@ft.bewatermyfriend.org>
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014, at 01:14 AM, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> We used to use ‘branch’ as the file to check for but moved away from it,
> because it didn't work reliably with newer versions of mercurial (this
> might have changed again in the meantime, since I don't follow
> mercurial's development too closely).
>
> Checking for ‘hgrc’ is not an option, because ~/.hg/hgrc is a possible
> configuration file location, which would lead to false positives in the
> user's home directory.
I see. Tricky!
>
> If a mercurial developer has an idea on how to properly detect this
> particular extension, I'd be all ears. ;)
shared repos have a file .hg/sharedpath if that helps
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 1:59 Benjamin Peterson
2014-01-16 9:14 ` Frank Terbeck
2014-01-16 14:41 ` Benjamin Peterson [this message]
2014-01-16 15:05 ` [PATCH] vcs_info, hg: Support detecting repos using ShareExtension Frank Terbeck
2014-01-17 5:48 ` Benjamin Peterson
2014-01-17 8:01 ` Frank Terbeck
2014-01-16 14:43 vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos Benjamin Peterson
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