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Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs |
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This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs |
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platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these |
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systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this |
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writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version |
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of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made, |
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some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more |
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esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made |
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(cf. posix.py). |
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By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this |
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extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for |
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HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is |
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enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with |
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the plumber(4). |
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Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must |
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update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be |
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interrupted. |
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Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page |
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references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file |
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formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the |
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Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages |
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are elided from the installation. |
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Basic install: |
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% mk install # do a system-wide install |
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% hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup |
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% hg # see help |
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A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a |
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binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1). |
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See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation |
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instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information. |