hgbook.red-bean.com, hook-writing, and documentation

[Ben Sizer]

Hello all,

I've been having problems submitting comments to hgbook.red-bean.com - is this site still in operation? I've been trying to use the documentation there to write in-process hooks for Python and found it a little frustrating due to some omissions, such as where I had to place the Python file so that it can be imported, and the arguments that get passed to each hook. As I discovered workarounds I tried to contribute my changes back to the site but the submission always ended up with the busy cursor spinning permanently.

The first problem I solved with the absolute file-name approach, as amending PYTHONPATH seems to get ignored by TortoiseHg. I guess this is a Py2Exe issue?

The second problem I solved by Googling for 'hooktype' after the documented argument list raised exceptions. This extra parameter doesn't appear to be mentioned in The Definitive Guide, and is only sporadically mentioned within the wiki (eg. http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Hook has an example with it towards the bottom of the page, but http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HookExamples does not.)

Does the Python hook API have any up-to-date documentation anywhere?



Ben Sizer
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