Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs

platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these

systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this

writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version

of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,

some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more

esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made

(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this

extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for

HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is

enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with

the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must

update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be

interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page

references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file

formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the

Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages

are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

  % mk install      # do a system-wide install

  % hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup

  % hg              # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a

binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation

instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.