contrib/plan9/README

transplant: restore dirstate correctly at unexpected failure

Before this patch, transplant can't restore dirstate as expected at
failure other than one while patching. This causes:

  - unexpected file status

  - dirstate refers already rollback-ed parent
    (only at failure of transplanting the 2nd or later revision)

To restore dirstate correctly also at unexpected failure, this patch
encloses scope of store lock and transaction by 'dirstateguard'.

This is temporary fixing for stable branch. See
DirstateTransactionPlan wiki page for detail about the future plan to
treat dirstate consistently around scope boundary of transaction.

    https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/DirstateTransactionPlan

This patch also adds 'if lock' examination for safety
'lock.release()', because creating 'dirstateguard' object may fail
unexpectedly (e.g. IOError for saving dirstate).

BTW, in the test script, putting section header '[extensions]' into
'.hg/hgrc' is needed to fix incomplete disabling 'abort' extension at
4d1382fd96ff.

Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
===================================

This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs
platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these
systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this
writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version
of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,
some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more
esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made
(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this
extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for
HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is
enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with
the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must
update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be
interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page
references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file
formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the
Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages
are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

  % mk install      # do a system-wide install
  % hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
  % hg              # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a
binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.