README.rst
author Ian Moody <moz-ian@perix.co.uk>
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:18:16 +0100
changeset 42618 c17e6a3e7356
parent 34579 1b59287a1cfa
child 46756 c5912e35d06d
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phabricator: handle local:commits time being string or int When setting local:commits arcanist has different behaviour depending on whether the repo is git or hg. With hg it sets the time as a number, since it calls PHP's strtotime on the value, but with git it sets it as a string. Normally this wouldn't be an issue since phabread wouldn't be interacting with Phabricator Revisions for git repos, but Mozilla has a secondary workflow for git users that uses the git-cinnabar tool to interact with their hg repos. When a git-cinnabar user uses the moz-phab tool to submit patches for mozilla-central it makes use of Mozilla's fork of arcanist, which works with their local git version of m-c, and thus sets the local:commit time as a string, and then translates the commit hashes. Currently when encountering such DREVS phabread dies with "TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not str". phabsend also used to set it as a string but wouldn't have encountered the issue with its own DREVs since it would read hg:meta first. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6650

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.