--similarity option for hg convert ?

[Greg Ward]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Philippe De Muyter<phdm at macqel.be> wrote:
> I have cloned pyfastimport and hg-fastimport, made the symbolic link, and
> added fastimport in the [extensions] section of my ~/.hgrc.
>
>  phdm at frolo:/archives/programs/external/hg> ls -l *
>  hg-fastimport:
>  total 32
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 phdm users 17987 2009-07-07 11:52 COPYING
>  lrwxrwxrwx 1 phdm users    26 2009-07-07 11:57 fastimport -> ../pyfastimport/fastimport
>  drwxr-xr-x 2 phdm users  4096 2009-07-07 11:58 hgfastimport
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 phdm users  3871 2009-07-07 11:52 README.txt
>  drwxr-xr-x 2 phdm users  4096 2009-07-07 11:52 tests
[...]
>  phdm at frolo:/archives/programs/external/hg> hg help fastimport
>  *** failed to import extension fastimport from /archives/programs/external/hg/hg-fastimport/hgfastimport: No module named fastimport

Ahh, I think I get it.  My instructions are to blame; I must have
misunderstood how Hg finds/loads extensions.  The problem is that the
directory containing the 'fastimport' package is not in Python's
search path.  The solution, I think, is to stick with the filesystem
layout you have, but run

  PYTHONPATH=/archives/programs/external/pyfastimport hg help fastimport

If that works, I should probably do something in hg-fastimport to make
it automatic.  For now, I've just updated the wiki page.

Greg