contrib/plan9/README

largefiles: pass a matcher instead of a raw file list to removelargefiles()

This is consistent with addlargefiles(), and will make it easier to get the
paths that are printed correct when recursing into subrepos or invoking from
outside the repository.  It also now restricts the path that the addremove is
performed on if a path is given, as is done with normal files.

The repo.status() call needs to exclude clean files when performing an
addremove, because the addremove override method calling this used to pass the
list of files to delete, which caused the matcher to only consider those files
in building the status list.  Now the matcher is restricted only to the extent
that the caller requested- usually directories if at all.  There's no reason for
addremove to care about clean files anyway- we don't want them deleted.

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.