hg experimental (facebook)

[Pulkit Goyal]

Hi Uwe,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 7:26 PM Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 7:22 PM Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> >
> >
> >    > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:22 PM Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> >
> >    > remotefilelog extension is shipped with core distribution from long
> >    > time. You just need to do `[extensions] remotefilelog=` for that.
> >
> > Thanks, I realised that.
> >
> >
> >    > About backups one, that seems like a nice feature which can go in core
> >    > distribution as `debugbackup` or something. If you want to sent a
> >    > patch for that, I can help you with it.
> >
> > That would be nice, but first I have to see whether I can get the latest
> > hg-experimental and see how it works, the one I have access to, is not
> > compatible with recent mercurial version.
>
> If you have a stack-trace which you can share, I can suggest fixes to
> be made. :)
>
> >
> > The extension itself does not look trivial I would say, and before
> > looking deeper into that, I would like to see, whether there exists a
> > working solution. If it does I need to talk with its author.
> >

I spent some time last week to port extension to core mercurial. I
sent a patch[1]. Even if that does not get merged, you can copy that
code and use that as an extension.

[1]: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7932