Writing a hook

[Kevin Maris]

Good idea.  Mind if I add to it later?

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Maris <lounginsince84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all, I was wondering if I could get some help.  I'm writing an
>> in-process hook that will be in remote repositories hgrc files.  The
>> purpose for the hook is to fire after a changegroup has been pushed
>> into the remote repo from a developer.  I've seen the red-bean hgbook
>> section, but it's not much help for doing anything useful.  The bit
>> I'm stuck on is generating a diff between the new tip and the revision
>> before that.  Any suggestions on how to go about it programatically in
>> python?  Are there any good reading materials for writing hooks?
>
> Try the Mercurial wiki as a supplement to the book:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/.  The best resource right now is
> MercurialApi, but it's a bit terse and more useful for extension
> authors than hook authors.
>
> So I've just started writing a new page: HookExamples.  Hopefully it
> will exist by the time you see this email message!  ;-)
>
> Greg
>
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