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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: help wanted for vc-hg.el
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:18:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200706211618.l5LGIwbe022312@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (raw)


vc-hg.el has been checked in recently. Unfortunately Ivan Kanis, the
vc-hg.el author does not have much time to maintain it. 

I implemented some of the missing functionality, but there are some
things that still need to be done. Here's a tentative list:

- thoroughly test and fix problems that are found

- write regexps for log-view to understand the "hg log" output

- implement vc-dired
- implement vc-snapshot 
    I have never used the 2 above, so I don't know much about them, or
    even if they make sense for Mercurial. 

- Implement Stefan Monnier's advice: 
    vc-hg-registered and vc-hg-state
    Both of those functions should be super extra careful to fail gracefully in
    unexpected circumstances.  The most important such case is when the `hg'
    executable is not available.  The reason this is important is that any error
    there will prevent the user from even looking at the file :-(
    Ideally, just like in vc-arch and vc-cvs, checking that the file is under
    mercurial's control and extracting the current revision should be done
    without even using `hg' (this way even if you don't have `hg' installed,
    Emacs is able to tell you this file is under mercurial's control).

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

        --dan

             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-21 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-21 16:18 Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2007-06-21 20:22 ` help wanted for vc-hg.el Sascha Wilde
2007-06-21 22:21   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-22  1:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22  2:21     ` using log-view-mode when a file name is not available (was: Re: help wanted for vc-hg.el) Dan Nicolaescu
2007-06-22 15:00       ` using log-view-mode when a file name is not available Stefan Monnier
2007-06-22 17:37         ` Dan Nicolaescu

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