On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Junghans <ott...@gentoo.org> wrote: > With nelchael's retirement I (with backup from djc) will take over the > maintenance of mercurial.eclass. As one of the first things I would > like to change the default value of EHG_REVISION. > > EHG_REVISION defines the revision/branch/tag to be checkout in src_unpack. > The current default is "tip", which identifies the most recent revision. > This can lead to unwanted branch changes (see > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380947#c16>) as the branch in > which tip resides is not fixed. > The new default should be "default", which is mercurial's default name > for the main branch. > > Looking at the packages using mercurial.eclass > (<http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/mercurial.txt>) the > above change shouldn't cause any problems (some packages already use > EHG_REVISION="default" to avoid branch changes), but I will wait > another week before committing the change. > > -- > Christoph Junghans > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ >
Sounds good to me; using "tip" never made sense to me either.
