Bug#525319: Please add mercurial (hg) support

2009-04-23 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Package: pristine-tar Version: 0.21 Severity: wishlist Please add mercurial (hg) support to pristine-tar. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable-i386 APT policy: (500, 'unstable-i386'), (500, 'experimental-i386'), (500, 'unstable'), (200,

Bug#525319: Please add mercurial (hg) support

2009-04-23 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin Brederlow wrote: Please add mercurial (hg) support to pristine-tar. Since this requires a good deep knowledge of each VCS, and I only know two well enough[1] personally, I'd need help to do that. The sort of thing that would be useful is if you can manually generate some pristine-tar

Bug#525319: Please add mercurial (hg) support

2009-04-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Goswin Brederlow wrote: Please add mercurial (hg) support to pristine-tar. Since this requires a good deep knowledge of each VCS, and I only know two well enough[1] personally, I'd need help to do that. The sort of thing that would be useful is if you can

Bug#525319: Please add mercurial (hg) support

2009-04-23 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I think hg can be done the same way git is done. Create a pristine-tar branch and store package_version.orig.tar.gz.delta and package_version.orig.tar.gz.id files there. For checkout git show becomes hg cat -r pristine-tar file. For commit there is some BIG