compatibility between hg and thg versions

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:36:50PM -0500, 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?

extension can now define a "testedwith" variable to list version of mercurial
it is "compatible" with. Maybe Tortoise Hg could do the same kind of stuff.


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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