* Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
@ 2014-01-16 14:43 Benjamin Peterson
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From: Benjamin Peterson @ 2014-01-16 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Terbeck; +Cc: zsh-workers
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
--
Regards,
Benjamin
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* Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
2014-01-16 9:14 ` Frank Terbeck
@ 2014-01-16 14:41 ` Benjamin Peterson
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From: Benjamin Peterson @ 2014-01-16 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Frank Terbeck; +Cc: zsh-workers
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
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* Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
2014-01-16 1:59 Benjamin Peterson
@ 2014-01-16 9:14 ` Frank Terbeck
2014-01-16 14:41 ` Benjamin Peterson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Frank Terbeck @ 2014-01-16 9:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benjamin Peterson; +Cc: zsh-workers
Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> Hi,
Hey!
> The hg share extension [1] lets you have multiple working trees with
> with the same backing repository. It seems vcs_info fails to detect
> working copies where the share extension is used because those .hg dirs
> don't contain "store" or "data" subdirectories as the VCS detection
> requires. It think it would be safer to look for the "hgrc" or "branch"
> file.
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.
If a mercurial developer has an idea on how to properly detect this
particular extension, I'd be all ears. ;)
Regards, Frank
--
In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- RFC 1925
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* vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
@ 2014-01-16 1:59 Benjamin Peterson
2014-01-16 9:14 ` Frank Terbeck
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Peterson @ 2014-01-16 1:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Hi,
The hg share extension [1] lets you have multiple working trees with
with the same backing repository. It seems vcs_info fails to detect
working copies where the share extension is used because those .hg dirs
don't contain "store" or "data" subdirectories as the VCS detection
requires. It think it would be safer to look for the "hgrc" or "branch"
file.
[1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ShareExtension
--
Regards,
Benjamin
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