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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o> wrote: |
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>> With nelchael's retirement I (with backup from djc) will take over the |
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>> maintenance of mercurial.eclass. As one of the first things I would |
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>> like to change the default value of EHG_REVISION. |
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>> EHG_REVISION defines the revision/branch/tag to be checkout in src_unpack. |
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>> The current default is "tip", which identifies the most recent revision. |
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>> This can lead to unwanted branch changes (see |
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>> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380947#c16>) as the branch in |
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>> which tip resides is not fixed. |
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>> The new default should be "default", which is mercurial's default name |
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>> for the main branch. |
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>> Looking at the packages using mercurial.eclass |
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>> (<http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/mercurial.txt>) the |
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>> above change shouldn't cause any problems (some packages already use |
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>> EHG_REVISION="default" to avoid branch changes), but I will wait |
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>> another week before committing the change. |
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>> Christoph Junghans |
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>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ |
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> Sounds good to me; using "tip" never made sense to me either. |
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+1 |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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