[9fans] Mercurial port is official

[Steven Stallion]

All,

I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.

You can find more information about the port here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Plan9FromBellLabs
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FactotumExtension

I've updated stallion/mercurial to version 2.2-rc for the time being.
The official 2.2 release is scheduled for the first of May. As soon as
the release is made, I'll update the package.

Some (slightly) bad news:

Due to the number of changes that needed to be made in order for the
port to be accepted upstream, I decided to recreate the contrib
package. If you have installed a previous revision of
stallion/mercurial, please be sure to completely remove it before
installing the new one. Installation is slightly manual since it
requires removing incorrect paths that were installed by
bichued/python, however the process is documented in the
Plan9FromBellLabs page above and in
sources/contrib/stallion/src/mercurial/README.

Cheers,

Steve

[David Leimbach]

This is truly excellent.

Now to get Python to work out of the box on Plan 9.

Dave

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Plan9FromBellLabs
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FactotumExtension
I've updated stallion/mercurial to version 2.2-rc for the time being.
The official 2.2 release is scheduled for the first of May. As soon as
the release is made, I'll update the package.
Due to the number of changes that needed to be made in order for the
port to be accepted upstream, I decided to recreate the contrib
package. If you have installed a previous revision of
stallion/mercurial, please be sure to completely remove it before
installing the new one. Installation is slightly manual since it
requires removing incorrect paths that were installed by
bichued/python, however the process is documented in the
Plan9FromBellLabs page above and in
sources/contrib/stallion/src/mercurial/README.
Cheers,
Steve

[Aram Hăvărneanu]

Fantastic news.

[Yaroslav]

Outstanding! Thanks a lot!

[balaji.srinivasa+ (balaji)]

This is great news. Bichued fixed some of fgb's intial port work to
make it work on plan9.
If i'm not mistaken its to do with threading etc, but it was working
well, including hgweb.
I'm curious to know (ofcourse without reading the links sent below) if
it supports https/ssh based checkin/checkouts.
This was one reason why we could not use it in a public environment.

bal

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Plan9FromBellLabs
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FactotumExtension
I've updated stallion/mercurial to version 2.2-rc for the time being.
The official 2.2 release is scheduled for the first of May. As soon as
the release is made, I'll update the package.
Due to the number of changes that needed to be made in order for the
port to be accepted upstream, I decided to recreate the contrib
package. If you have installed a previous revision of
stallion/mercurial, please be sure to completely remove it before
installing the new one. Installation is slightly manual since it
requires removing incorrect paths that were installed by
bichued/python, however the process is documented in the
Plan9FromBellLabs page above and in
sources/contrib/stallion/src/mercurial/README.
Cheers,
Steve

[Steven Stallion]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM, balaji

Post by balaji.srinivasa+ (balaji)
This is great news. Bichued fixed some of fgb's intial port work to
make it work on plan9.
If i'm not mistaken its to do with threading etc, but it was working
well, including hgweb.
I'm curious to know (ofcourse without reading the links sent below) if
it supports https/ssh based checkin/checkouts.
This was one reason why we could not use it in a public environment.

Hi Bal,

HTTP/HTTPS should work without any problems (we've been using it for
the last year and a half or so on older versions of Mercurial with no
problems). SSH is a bit tougher. Mercurial assumes that OpenSSH is
installed on the system. Unfortunately, even if the openssh package is
installed there were a couple of problems we came across in Python
itself in the pipe handling.

Anecdotally speaking, Mercurial has been much more pleasant over HTTP
- we haven't looked back since moving our repositories over. To reduce
some of the pain, use of the scheme extension allows us to shorten up
the repository URLs:

hg clone hg://src/someproject

In /lib/mercurial/hgrc:

[schemes]
hg = https://hg.mysite.com/

Cheers,

Steve

[Jens Staal]

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.

Awesome! does this mean that the hg-git plugin will work out-of-the-box too?
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[Steven Stallion]

Post by Jens Staal

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.

Awesome! does this mean that the hg-git plugin will work out-of-the-box too?

I have no idea! It's definitely worth a shot, though. We've baked this
port for quite some time now and I'm fairly confident we've worked out
most of the kinks.

Steve

[Steven Stallion]

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
I'm happy to report that the official Mecurial port is complete and
has been accepted upstream. Starting with version 2.2, Mercurial will
support Plan 9 and friends out of the box.

All,

Version 2.2 of Mercurial was released today. I've updated the
stallion/mercurial package accordingly.

Steve

[Akshat Kumar]

This hasn't been working for me, with
codereview.

In particular, when hg tries to upload
data to the codereview server, I get
an exception (on the first `change' or
subsequent `upload' commands):

term% hg upload 6031056
Mon Apr 30 12:37:16 2012 loading CL 6031056
Mon Apr 30 12:37:16 2012 getting issue metadata from web
Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 None
Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 loaded CL 6031056
Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 uploading CL metadata + diffs
Mon Apr 30 12:37:30 2012 inspecting src/pkg/runtime/os_plan9.h
** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting
** http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker
** Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 26 2009, 08:54:39) [C]
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.2-rc)
** Extensions loaded: extdiff, factotum, codereview
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/hg", line 38, in <module>
mercurial.dispatch.run()
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 27, in run
sys.exit((dispatch(request(sys.argv[1:])) or 0) & 255)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 64, in dispatch
return _runcatch(req)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 87, in _runcatch
return _dispatch(req)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 685, in _dispatch
cmdpats, cmdoptions)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 467, in runcommand
ret = _runcommand(ui, options, cmd, d)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 775, in _runcommand
return checkargs()
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 746, in checkargs
return cmdfunc()
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/dispatch.py",
line 682, in <lambda>
d = lambda: util.checksignature(func)(ui, *args, **cmdoptions)
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/util.py",
line 463, in check
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "//sys/lib/codereview/codereview.py.plan9", line 1849, in upload
cl.Upload(ui, repo)
File "//sys/lib/codereview/codereview.py.plan9", line 351, in Upload
files = vcs.GetBaseFiles(data)
File "//sys/lib/codereview/codereview.py.plan9", line 2968, in GetBaseFiles
files[filename] = self.GetBaseFile(filename)
File "//sys/lib/codereview/codereview.py.plan9", line 3164, in GetBaseFile
ret = commands.status(fui, self.repo, *[relpath], **{'rev':
[self.base_rev], 'copies': True})
File "/sys/lib/python/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/commands.py",
line 5191, in status
fm = ui.formatter('status', opts)
AttributeError: 'FakeMercurialUI' object has no attribute 'formatter'

Post by Steven Stallion
All,
Version 2.2 of Mercurial was released today. I've updated the
stallion/mercurial package accordingly.
Steve

[Steven Stallion]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Akshat Kumar

Post by Akshat Kumar
This hasn't been working for me, with
codereview.
In particular, when hg tries to upload
data to the codereview server, I get
an exception (on the first `change' or
term% hg upload 6031056
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:16 2012 loading CL 6031056
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:16 2012 getting issue metadata from web
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 None
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 loaded CL 6031056
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:26 2012 uploading CL metadata + diffs
       Mon Apr 30 12:37:30 2012 inspecting src/pkg/runtime/os_plan9.h
** unknown exception encountered, please report by visiting
**  http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BugTracker
** Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 26 2009, 08:54:39) [C]
** Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.2-rc)
** Extensions loaded: extdiff, factotum, codereview

Hi Akshat,

This looks like an incompatibility with 2.2 and upload.py. I know that
the Mercurial support in upload is maintained separately by the
rietveld guys, it might make sense to ping them.

HTH,

Steve