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help: add an rst file containing some helpful instructions The new file contains three sections: The first one is based on the README and contains instructions on how to use hgsubversion. The second one mentions the most notable shortcomings of hgsubversion. The third and final section documents how to customise hgsubversion.
author Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com>
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3 ============
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4 hgsubversion
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5 ============
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7 hgsubversion is an extension for Mercurial that allows using Mercurial
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8 as a Subversion client.
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10 At this point, hgsubversion is usable by users reasonably familiar with
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11 Mercurial as a VCS. It's not recommended to dive into hgsubversion as an
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12 introduction to Mercurial, since hgsubversion "bends the rules" a little
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13 and violates some of the typical assumptions of early Mercurial users.
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15 Installation
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16 ------------
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17 You need to have Subversion installed with the SWIG Python bindings
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18 from Subversion 1.5 or later. You need Mercurial 1.3 or later.
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20 .. _mercurial: http://selenic.com/repo/hg
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21 .. _mercurial-stable: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable
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22 .. _crew: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew
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23 .. _crew-stable: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew-stable
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25 If you are unfamiliar with installing Mercurial extensions, please see
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26 the UsingExtensions_ page in the Mercurial wiki. Look at the example
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27 for specifying an absolute path near the bottom of the page. You want
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28 to give the path to the top level of your clone of this repository.
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30 .. _UsingExtensions: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UsingExtensions
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32 Before using hgsubversion, I *strongly* encourage you to run the
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33 automated tests. Just use nose_ if you have it (or ``easy_install
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34 nose`` if you want it), or use ``python tests/run.py`` to run the
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35 suite with the conventional test runner. Note that because I use nose,
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36 there's a lot of stdout spew in the tests right now. The important
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37 part is that all the tests pass.
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39 .. _nose: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/
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41 Basic Use
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42 -----------
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43 Get a new clone of an svn server::
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45 $ hg clone <svn URI> [destination]
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47 Real example::
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49 $ hg clone http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn nose-hg
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51 Note: there are two slightly different ways of cloning
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58 clone `http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn/trunk`.
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60 Pull new revisions into an already-converted repo::
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64 For more information, see ``hg help svn`` while in a converted repo.
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66 Support for ``svn:externals``
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67 -----------------------------
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68 All ``svn:externals`` properties are serialized into a single
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81 space**. Note that the property lines have a format identical to
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83 hgsubversion extended svn+http:// URL format.
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92 related Subversion repository*.