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README: mention Subvertpy. Change the README to mention Subvertpy and provide help on how to check that hgsubversion works properly.
author Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr@gmail.com>
date Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:03:26 +0200
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@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ and violates some of the typical assumpt
 
 Installation
 ------------
-You need to have Subversion installed with the SWIG Python bindings
-from Subversion 1.5 or later. You need Mercurial 1.3 or later.
+You need to have either have Subversion 1.5 (or later) installed along with
+either Subvertpy 0.7.3 (or later) or the Subversion SWIG Python bindings. You
+need Mercurial 1.3 or later.
 
 .. _mercurial: http://selenic.com/repo/hg
 .. _mercurial-stable: http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable
@@ -38,6 +39,24 @@ part is that all the tests pass.
 
 .. _nose: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/
 
+You can check that hgsubversion is installed and properly activated using the
+following command::
+
+ $ hg version --svn
+ Mercurial Distributed SCM (version ...)
+
+ Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> and others
+ This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
+ warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+ hgsubversion: ...
+ Subversion: ...
+ bindings: Subvertpy ...
+
+If your bindings are listed as `SWIG`, please consider installing Subvertpy_.
+
+.. _Subvertpy: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/subvertpy
+
 Further Reading
 ---------------