From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:26:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] New remote-hg helper
Message-ID: <20121029212643.GA20513@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s0RVe6i4DpNmaV_n7_5KO_aq2WxCPVafjsTukExRSR5Jw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 03:56:39PM +0100, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> >> I've ported the tests from hg-git and made sure that the output from remote-hg
> >> matches the output of hg-git. With these extensive tests I would consider this
> >> one ready for wide use. Not only do the tests pass, I've compared the generated
> >> repos of a few projects, and the SHA-1's are exactly the same :)
> >
> > Sounds cool. Unfortunately, the test script hangs for me, after starting
> > up xxdiff (!).
> >
> > pstree reveals that it is "hg" that starts it, but I didn't investigate
> > beyond that.
> 
> Yeah, the test script is not ready for merging, it needs to check for
> python, hg, and hg-git.
> 
> Do you have hg-git installed?

No. But it's important that it fail gracefully; I can't even take it in
pu if I can't run the test suite in a sane way.

I may try to figure it out later myself, but it's not a super high
priority for me.

-Peff