Mercurial backend for emacs

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-06-21 13:01, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> 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
>>
>> 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 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...

Emacs has just finished its _very_ long release cycle for Emacs 22.1,
so my guess is we are not going to see a full, new Emacs release for
at least another year.

If we can convince the Emacs developers to improve the current vc-hg.el
or even completely replace it by the time Emacs 23 is out to make it
work better with the 'D' part of 'DVCS', then by all means let's do it :-)