Re: ediff-revision doesn't recognize Mercurial-managed source

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:

> The core Python development team just switched from Subversion to Mercurial,
> so I'm trying to get my tool chain back into working order.  I have been
> using vc and ediff-revision from within XEmacs, but its Mercurial support
> seemed lacking, so I thought I would try making the switch to GNU Emacs.
>
> While it appears that the version of GNU Emacs (23.1) I downloaded from
>
>     http://emacsformacosx.com/
>
> has a vc-hg.el.gz file, executing vc-next-action (C-x v v) on a
> Mercurial-managed file seems to have tried to register the file with bzr!
> Trying to execute ediff-revision results in a "blah is not under version
> control" message.
>
> Do I need to sprinkle some sort of magic ~/.emacs magic pixie dust to get vc
> to work?
You should try DVC http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/dvc.html
which have a very good support for hg.
It works fine since emacs22.

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