Mercurial and Windows
Rick Rankin
rrankin1424-xemacs at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 7 22:01:08 EST 2007
----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Sperber <xxx at xxx>
> To: xxx at xxx
> Sent: Friday, December 7, 2007 12:09:16 AM
> Subject: Mercurial and Windows
>
>
> I those who build from source probably want to do something like
this:
>
> hg init xemacs
> cd xemacs
> hg pull http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs-beta
>
> (rather than "hg clone") and then add the following to
xemacs/.hg/hgrc:
>
> [extensions]
> hgext.win32text=
> [encode]
> **.{1,el,h,html,txt,tex,texi} = dumbencode:
> **/{ChangeLog,README} = dumbencode:
> [decode]
> **.{1,el,h,html,txt,tex,texi} = dumbdecode:
> **/{ChangeLog,README} = dumbdecode:
>
> This sets up CRLF conversion for the specified files. This is
> documented here:
>
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Win32Extension
>
> Only *then* do:
>
> hg update
>
> Note I haven't actually tried this myself---I would appreciate if you
> could report to me if you try this.
>
I just did a Cygwin build after updating with Cygwin's Mercurial client and had no problems. I did not do any of the CR/LF stuff as it isn't necessary for Cygwin.
FYI,
--Rick
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