Holger Peters <holger.peters@posteo.de> writes:

> Thanks for making that clear. Anything preventing the patches to be
> merged?  The functionality is already provided for `git' and this
> patch just levels the playing field for `mercurial' repositories.

I've had a look at the patches now, and pushed them as
289b20ef62ce1d23befcf2593b191e2a686c7b6c with some tweaks. I'll make
some comments on the patches by email, but please also have a look at
the two commits.

Thanks,

Chris