[PATCH] schemes extension

Augie Fackler lists at durin42.com
Mon Nov 30 14:29:37 CST 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Solovyov
<piranha at piranha.org.ua> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:
>>> Any thoughts on including (or not) this in Mercurial? I use it
>>> everywhere and I think this is
>>> really handy to have it included with hg...
>>
>> How many other users does it have? How long has it been publicly released and
>> described in the Mercurial wiki?
>
> It's been available since March, and it has few users among guys, active in IRC
> (I have no ideas how to count number of users using it actually), but I think it
> represents very edge case here - feature is quite small to be neglected, but is
> very convenient when you have it available (it's like aliases).

I've showed this feature to a number of users who have indicated that
it's really awesome, but they won't bother with it because they'd have
to manually install it on all their machines. Some actually said "wow,
I'd use that if it just shipped with hg."

> Another argument for including such extension: bazaar users have such feature
> and a lot of people uses it.
>
> And this can probably serve as an another argument, catched in #mercurial today:
>
> [22:10] muggs: schemes is going to be distributed with tortoisehg,
> starting with 0.9.1
>
> --
> Alexander
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