compatibility between hg and thg versions

Tom Udale tom at ionoptix.com
Mon Nov 5 18:40:42 UTC 2012


On 11/5/2012 1:36 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 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?

Hi Neal,

Maybe this:

https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/ReleaseNotes#!matching-versions



Regards,

Tom





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