[PATCH RFC] clone: copy hgrc paths if source and dest are local

[Jason Harris]

On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

> On 14.06.2010 12:35, Jason Harris wrote:
>> Isn't path groups and things like that more a function for the system lying above Mercurial if there is one. Ie a GUI. Eg see this:
>> 
>> http://jasonfharris.com/machg/MacHgHelp/pgs/AboutRepositoryLists.html
>> 
>> So in the document view the user can drag around the repositories into any order they want, etc. This makes a lot of sense for the GUI. However, does it make sense for Mercurial to have this somehow specified somewhere? I am not so sure. Would normal users really use this in command line mercurial?
>> 
>> If normal users would not use it then I would think... that it should really be done in the GUI, and that the GUI stores this information wherever it stores its other stuff to do with settings and stuff... (I could of course be missing some facet of how THg works though :) )
> 
> Yuck, top posting.
> 
> I was just trying to see if there's any chance of integrating it in
> mercurial settings in a standard way - outside of our walled TortoiseHg
> garden :-).

:)


> And yes, we are heavily working on these things right now for the PyQt
> based TortoiseHg 2.0 (ETA: Nov 1st) [1]. MacHg inspired us for our new
> RepoRegistry widget [2].

Thanks! Of course I can't take any credit here :) MacHg just followed standard apple HIG human interface guidelines and programs like apple mail, ical, itunes, etc... But I think it works nicely and 

> [1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg
> [2]
> http://bitbucket.org/abuehl/thg-qt-abuehl/downloads/workbench-thg-qt-2010-06-14-2.PNG

Ohhh... That looks much much nicer than the current tortoise hg I have played with under vista :) Congratulations!! :)

Cheers,
  Jas