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Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] New remote-hg helper

From
Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2012, 18:00 UTC
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<20121030180021.GX26850@arachsys.com>
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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> Yes, it seems this is an API issue; repo.branchtip doesn't exist in
> python 2.2.

Hi. Presumably this is a problem with old mercurial not a problem with old python as mentioned in the commit?

> Both issues should be fixed now :)

They are indeed, and it now works nicely on all the repos I've tested it with, including http://selenic.com/hg: very impressive!

I wonder whether it's worth ignoring heads with bookmarks pointing to them when it comes to considering heads of branches, or at least allowing the hg branch tracking to be easily disabled?

A common idiom when working with hg bookmarks is to completely ignore the (not very useful) hg branches (i.e. all commits are on the default hg branch) and have a bookmark for each line of development used exactly as a git branch would be.

On such a repository, at the moment you will always get a warning about multiple heads on branches/default, even though you actually don't care about branches/default (and would prefer it not to exist) and just want the branches coming from the bookmarks.

I've also seen repositories with no hg branches, but with a single unbookmarked tip and bookmarks on some other heads to mark non-mainline development. It would be nice for branches/default to track the unbookmarked tip in this case, without warning about the other, bookmarked heads.

Finally, on a simple repo with no branches and where there's no clash with a bookmark called master, I'd love to be able to a get a more idiomatic origin/master rather than origin/branches/default.

Just some idle thoughts...
Best wishes,
Chris.
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Message 19 of 26 in “New remote-hg helper”
  1. 00/14 New remote-hg helperFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  2. 01/14 Add new remote-hg transport helperFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  3. 02/14 remote-hg: add support for bookmarksFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  4. 03/14 remote-hg: add support for pushingFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  5. 04/14 remote-hg: add support for remote pushingFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  6. 05/14 remote-hg: add support to push URLsFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  7. 06/14 remote-hg: make sure the encoding is correctFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  8. 07/14 remote-hg: match hg merge behaviorFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  9. 08/14 remote-hg: add support for hg-git compat modeFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  10. 09/14 remote-hg: add compat for hg-git author fixesFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  11. 10/14 remote-hg: fake bookmark when there's noneFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  12. 11/14 remote-hg: add support for fake remoteFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  13. 12/14 remote-hg: add biridectional testsFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  14. 13/14 remote-hg: add tests to compare with hg-gitFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  15. 14/14 remote-hg: add extra author testFelipe Contreras, Oct 30, 2012
  16. Chris WebbOct 30, 2012
  17. Chris WebbOct 30, 2012
  18. Felipe ContrerasOct 30, 2012
  19. Chris WebbOct 30, 2012
  20. Chris WebbOct 30, 2012
  21. Felipe ContrerasOct 30, 2012
  22. Felipe ContrerasNov 1, 2012
  23. Chris WebbNov 11, 2012
  24. Felipe ContrerasNov 13, 2012
  25. Johannes SchindelinOct 30, 2012
  26. Felipe ContrerasOct 30, 2012

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