"staging area"?

[Augie Fackler]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Martin Geisler wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 00:32, Lester Caine<lester at lsces.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe someone can port crecord to pyGtk so it can be added to
>>>> TortoiseHg. It would be nice if Windows users who can't use cygwin
>>>> could get the benefit of crecord.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if windows got something approaching the same support as
>>> linux ...
>>
>> We make sure Mercurial works under Windows just as well as under Linux
>> and Mac OS X. In this case, someone made an extension for Mercurial
>> and decided to use ncurses. It is a shame that ncurses is not
>> available for your platform (I haven't actually checked if there is an
>> easy way to use ncurses on Windows) but you cannot really blame the
>> Mercurial or TortoiseHg teams for this.
>
> ACTUALLY ... things are not as bad FOR ME as I had thought. I am now getting
> the environment under control, and have identified a couple of things that
> *I* need to advise my users about - on windows.
>
> 1/ Install TortoiseHg into a directory WITHOUT SPACES ...
> 2/ Install MercurialEclipse
> 3/ Change the copy of hg that ME is using to the TortiseHg one
>    ( That fails with the windows spave crap ;) )
> 4/ Add hg-git extension to TortoiseHg
>    ( At this stage I assume that both copies of hg are using the same .hgrc
> )
>
> Just not sure yet if this setup is handling hgsub/gitmodules stuff yet.

hg-git is completely unaware of .hgsub and ignores git submodules
because nobody's done the implementation work.

>
> OH - and it would be nice if I could get this setup to remember the
> passphrass - I'm not going to type it in several dozen times :( But that is
> a separate problem ...
>
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