Mercurial backend for emacs

[Brendan Cully]

On Thursday, 21 June 2007 at 22:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-06-21 22:37, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > On 2007-06-20 17:27, Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2007-06-26 at kanis.eu> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have written a backend of mercurial for emacs. It is called vc-hg.el
> > > and has been added in CVS emacs yesterday.
> > >
> > > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/lisp/vc-hg.el?root=emacs&view=log
> > >
> > > I hope it will be useful, please note that I do not have time to
> > > maintain it. Patches and enhancements should be sent to the Free
> > > Software Foundation.
> > 
> > Fantastic, thanks! :)
> > 
> > FWIW, I know that Brendan Cully has also been working on a vc-hg
> > implementation too.  Can you please have a look at that too, and see if
> > we can merge the two vc-hg implementations into one with the best
> > features of both?
> > 
> > I'm copying Brendan directly in this thread too.
> 
> But then I forgot to modify Cc: :-/

I haven't had time to work on it lately. But it did have some
advantages, like being able to use mercurial.el functions for DVCS
operations not supported by VC, like pull and incoming. The module
which went into emacs looks like a step back in functionality. It
might have been a good idea to post it here before committing it...