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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 15, 2010, at 5:18 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>  
> wrote:
> > I'm perfectly willing to maintain a bitbucket mirror,
> > <shameless plug> but why not just use hg-git? I do all my dulwich dev
> > work using hg-git and it's fantastic.
> > </shameless plug>
>
> It is not that fantastic on Windows. =) After I've fixed the issue
> with GitFile [1] with attached patch, it is able to successfully clone
> Git repository and create Hg working copy, but still fails to push
> with the error:
> abort: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
>
> I'd like to see this Windows patch integrated first to continue
> investigation on Windows further. It seems that there are some
> incompatibility issues with Mercurial 1.4.x.

That's distressing. The tests get run against hg 1.4.x every time new  
code gets pushed. Can you be more specific?

>  I need to compile
> Mercurial 1.5.1 from source, but that requires MS compiler or --pure
> key, and I just do not have time for it right now. I have installed
> 1.5.1 from, but with binary distribution there is a problem that even
> if path to extension is specified in Mercurial.ini, hggit is not able
> to find Dulwich, because sys.path is altered in frozen app. If I copy
> dulwich into hggit directory then Dulwich imports fail, because of the
> same issue - seems like current __file__ directory is not added to
> sys.path for frozen distributives.

TortoiseHG should ship with a Mercurial that includes a relatively  
recent dulwich - have you tried that?

I have no resources for testing things on Windows, and until now all  
the windows users have just complained and not offered fixes - I'll  
appreciate any patches you can provide.

> [1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/dulwich/+bug/557585
>
>
> > FWIW, modern hg can use 'hg email --plain' to email git-am format
> > patches. Some day, I'll take the time to teach git-am about hg's
> > slightly more robust patch format.
>
> Mercurial 1.5.1 doesn't have "email" command in my Windows install. No
> options in Mercurial.ini either.

Enable the patchbomb extension:
mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PatchbombExtension

Augie

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> anatoly t.
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