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1 -*-restructuredtext-*-
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3 About
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4 -----
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5 hgsubversion is an extension for Mercurial that allows using Mercurial
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6 as a Subversion client.
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8 Right now it is *not* ready for production use. You should only be
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9 using this if you're ready to hack on it, and go diving into the
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10 internals of Mercurial and/or Subversion.
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12 Installation
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13 ------------
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14 You need to have Subversion installed with the SWIG Python bindings
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15 from Subversion 1.5 or later. You need Mercurial 1.1.1 or later.
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17 .. _mercurial: http://selenic.com/repo/hg
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18 .. _mercurial-stable: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable
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19 .. _crew: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew
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20 .. _crew-stable: http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew-stable
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22 If you are unfamiliar with installing Mercurial extensions, please see
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23 the UsingExtensions_ page in the Mercurial wiki. Look at the example
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24 for specifying an absolute path near the bottom of the page. You want
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25 to give the path to the top level of your clone of this repository.
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27 .. _UsingExtensions: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/
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28 UsingExtensions
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30 Before using hgsubversion, I *strongly* encourage you to run the
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31 automated tests. Just use nose_ if you have it (or ``easy_install
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32 nose`` if you want it), or use ``python tests/run.py`` to run the
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33 suite with the conventional test runner. Note that because I use nose,
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34 there's a lot of stdout spew in the tests right now. The important
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35 part is that all the tests pass.
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37 .. _nose: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/
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39 Basic Use
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40 -----------
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41 Get a new clone of an svn server::
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43 $ hg svnclone <svn URI> [destination]
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45 Real example::
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47 $ hg svnclone http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn nose-hg
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49 Note, you should pull from the root subversion directory, not specific
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50 folders (such as trunk).
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52 Pull new revisions into an already-converted repo::
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54 $ hg svn pull
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56 For more information, see 'hg help svn' while in a converted repo.
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58 Support for svn:externals
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60 All svn:externals properties are serialized into a single .hgsvnexternals file, with the following syntax:
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62 --------------------
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63 [.]
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71 A header line gives the directory the property applies on, '.' for the project root directory. The property content follows, *every line being prefixed by a single space*.
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73 The creation or modification of this file will trigger svn:externals updates on the related subversion repository.
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