Mercurial Mini-Sprint - May 2018

 Pierre-Yves David
2018-05-28

From Monday 21th to may 25th, around 12 people gathered in the Logilab office to discuss version control and hack on Mercurial. A big thanks to Logilab for hosting us. We covered multiple topics:

Mercurial 4.6

  • Fixing Mercurial 4.6 compatibility for the following extensions:
    • hgsubversion,
    • hg-git (and preparation of the associated release),
    • confman,
    • preparing a Windows installer for tortoise-hg 4.6

hgweb

  • First version of a Readme extension that displays the lasted content of a project README on hgweb landing page,
  • Various usability improvements for hg serve (automatic browser opening, printing URL, etc),
  • Displaying obsolescence log information in hgweb,
  • Ability to view and exchange hidden changeset through hgweb,
  • Discussion how to facilitate theme development and maintenance.

Performance tracking

  • Upstreaming of some of our work on ASV,
  • Work on benchmarking clone and stream clone time,
  • Discussion with a Git core developer about similar efforts in the git community.

Evolution and feature branches

  • New flag for obslog to filter out changesets that are unknown locally,
  • Improvement of core ability to do in memory merge and in memory diffing,
  • New message about local phase movement on pull,
  • Improvement of message around empty topics,
  • Implementation of an "internal phase" for changesets that are a byproduct of Mercurial command (eg: evolve, shelve).
  • Discussion about feature branch and workflow.

Mercurial hosting

  • Installation of an experimental heptapod instance (gitlab + Mercurial) for further testing,
  • Mercurial compatibility for the Gitlab CI runners.

Other

  • Experiment with tortoise-hg styling to get a mode closer to what hgview does,
  • Implementing strip-less shelve using the new internal phase,
  • Demo of an experimental test orchestrator atop the Mercurial test runner,
  • Refactoring of context.py to better facilitate in-memory merges.

Thanks to Anton Shestakov, Arthur Lutz, Aurelien Campeas, Boris Feld, Christian Couder, David Douard, Denis Laxalde, Nicolas Spanti, Paul Morelle, Phillipe Pépiot, Pierre-Yves David and Sean Farley for being part of this event. Extra thanks go to Pulkit Goyal for remotely helping with the shelve code.