Makefile target "uninstall" missing

2022-06-18 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, no, I don't want to get rid of Mercurial. Honestly :-) But recently I had the need to cleanly uninstall the currently installed Mercurial version in order to check out, build and install another Merc- urial version. I ended up using "gawk" to create "rm" statements from lines cont

Problems with an own patch against Mercurial Queues

2017-12-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, for quite some time I have applied the following little patch to Mercur- ial, because I think a message containing the word "error" is in fact an error message and should thus go to standard error: $ cat .hg/patches/MqMessage | grep -v '^#" Redirect error message from stdout to stderr.

Re: Mercurial 4.3 and 4.2.3 released

2017-08-11 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Augie, On Thursday, 2017-08-10 14:11:52 -0400, you wrote: > ... > > CVE-2017-1000115: > > > > Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete prior to 4.3, and could be > > abused to write to files outside the repository. What precisely does that mean? Is it no longer possible to have a vers- ion

[PATCH] Make test suite more immune to environment variables

2017-02-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
tests: make test suite more immune to environment variables Plenty of tests break when "make tests" is run while environment variables "HGPLAIN" or "HGPLAINEXCEPT" are set (test "test-obsolete- checkheads.t" is just a single example). This patch causes script "run-tests.py" to also remove these t

[PATCH] Correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in "hgrc.5"

2017-02-17 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
# HG changeset patch # User Rainer Woitok # Date 1487326116 -3600 # Parent 56ed3565559ad36d11eaf58697c2416bf5bc1f2b doc: correct example concerning "hg purge" alias in man page "hgrc.5" The "hg purge" alias as currently described in "hgrc.5" issues a possibly confusing error message like rm: