hg copy -A and broken symlinks in Mercurial 1.4?

[Augie Fackler]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:22 AM, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I ran into an issue with Mercurial 1.4 (the version used in RHEL 6) not
> handling broken symlinks properly. I opened a Bugzilla against it which
> demonstrates the issue:
> http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-July/042289.html
>
> It appears that this is fixed in newer versions of Mercurial, so I did
some
> searching through the mail archives and these seemed like the most likely
> candidates for the fixes:
> http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2012-July/042289.html
> http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2007-March/001212.html
>
> Does anyone have any input on the fix for this in Mercurial 1.4?
>
> Also, is 1.4 still being maintained so version 1.4.4 could be released
with
> this fix? Or is a fix for this issue just going to have to be maintained
> downstream by RedHat?

Is there a reason you can't upgrade to a version that's not over three
years old <http://selenic.com/hg/rev/4aa619c4c2c0>? A build of hg from that
long ago certainly has a large number of fixed bugs[0] and is missing a ton
of useful modern features.

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/mercurial/ looks helpful if you don't want to
roll your own (I picked the first result from Google, so you may want to
check the validity of those packages).

[0]: Using revsets (an awesome feature you're missing, BTW), `hg log -r
'1.4.3::@ and grep("issue[0-9]+")' --template '{node}\n' | wc -l` suggests
you're missing over 800 bugfixes. And that's just ones that had a bug
attached to the changeset correctly.
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