compatibility between hg and thg versions

[Neal Becker]

Angel Ezquerra wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:32 PM,  <paul_nathan at selinc.com> wrote:
>> mercurial-bounces at selenic.com wrote on 11/05/2012 04:29:12 AM:
>>
>>> From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
>>> To: mercurial at selenic.com,
>>> Date: 11/05/2012 04:29 AM
>>> Subject: compatibility between hg and thg versions
>>> Sent by: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com
>>>
>>> Hi, I maintain hg on Fedora.  I always have an issue with updating
>>> hg, because I
>>> need to be sure I'm not breaking something in the process.  AFAIK, the
>>> only
>>> thing which is depending on hg is tortoisehg (thg).
>>>
>>> How can I (with minimial effort) ensure I don't break thg by updating to
>>> an
>>> incompatible hg version?  What do others do?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Neal,
>>
>> I maintain an internal release of hg on our internal servers which is paired
>> with thg: every x.y.3 release or so, when thg catches up to hg, I release
>> them both to the internal servers.
>>
>> - - -
>> Regards,
>> Paul Nathan
> 
> In general it does not take thg up to version x.x.3 to catch up to a
> new mercurial version. In theory each x.x.0 release is fully
> compatible with the corresponding mercurial release.
> 
> That being said one of the recent thg verions (I believe 2.4) took
> longer tha usual to catch up to the corresponding mercurial release.
> But that should be the exception, not the rule.

Thanks for the responses.  I still have my original question, how do I know 
which thg versions are compatible with which hg versions?