On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM Marvin Renich <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> [251106 12:37]: > > Hm. I had thought to enable the Mercurial "git" extension but its help > > is not very helpful. The following is all it says (for hg version > > 7.1.1): > > > > git extension - grant Mercurial the ability to operate on Git repositories. > > (EXPERIMENTAL) > > > > This is currently super experimental. It probably will consume your > > firstborn > > a la Rumpelstiltskin, etc. > > > > (use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions) > > Tony, I use hggit. To enable it, add to your ~/.hgrc (or .hg/hgrc in a > specific repo): > > [extensions] > hggit = > > Then you can get help with «hg help hggit». Basically, you just clone > the git repo: > > hg clone git+https://github.com/vim/vim.git > > and then use it as a local Mercurial repo, including push and pull. > > ...Marvin
My Mercurial distribution (hg 7.1.1 from openSUSE Tumbleweed) includes the git extension but not the hggit extension. Anyway, I've made the jump and cloned the master git repository. Not that I like it. I haven't (yet) implemented my few local additions (one line in src/feature.h IIRC), and like previously, instead of modifying the distributed files, I use ln -svf ../Makefile ln -svf ../config.mk.dist once and for all in each of my shadow directories to keep these files updated. Also like before, my configurations are defined in the environment, a slightly different one in each shell, one per shadow directory, so when a new patch comes in, I can compile all my differently-configured versions of Vim in parallel. Took me some time to find out that "git status" would tell me if I need to pull, like "hg incoming" does it for Mercurial. Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAJkCKXt13eDUeMKKE4YDK2wMESco4T6uY3QnwZRR95ftHoVNZw%40mail.gmail.com.
