mercurial news: fix extension?

[Augie Fackler]

> On Oct 4, 2018, at 05:37, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just read in 
> 
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew
> 
> 
> 6.5.4. fix extension
> 
> Allows to rewrite file content in changesets or working copy. For
> example, automatically applying formatting fixes to modified lines of
> code. This experimental extension is now distributed with Mercurial.
> 
> 
> I would like to try out that extension without installing the latest hg
> stable, since it does not work for me with the hg-git extension.
> 
> Does somebody has a pointer?

It doesn't work except with the latest Mercurial. Its prior life was as an internal extension at Google, and the version that would work with hg 4.6 weren't released publicly.

I think someone sent patches to hg-git to fix it with 4.7 - maybe you can find them if you talk to the hg-git folks.

> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Uwe Brauer 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mercurial mailing list
> Mercurial at mercurial-scm.org
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial