Proposal for new tool: defpath
Jonathan Gibbons
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Tue Apr 26 15:24:11 UTC 2016
Erik,
This sounds like a good idea. If there is no contrary feedback in the
next few days, we should move ahead with this.
-- Jon
On 04/26/2016 03:12 AM, Erik Helin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose a new tool: defpath. defpath is an hg [0]
> extension that makes it easy to update the push-path for a Mercurial
> repository. A user can type the command:
>
> $ hg defpath -d -u <USERNAME>
>
> and the correct (for OpenJDK projects) push-path will be added to .hg/hgrc,
> based on the default path (and the -u argument). Below is an
> example of how the tool can be used:
>
> $ hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs
> $ cd hs
> $ hg defpath -d -u ehelin
> $ cat .hg/hgrc
> [paths]
> default = http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs
> default-push = ssh://ehelin@hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs
>
> The defpath extension also works in combination with the
> trees Mercurial extension. Working with a forest, a user can run:
>
> $ hg tclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs
> $ cd hs
> $ hg tdefpath -d -u <USERNAME>
>
> and the push-path will be set for every repository in the forest.
>
> The tool has been written by John Coomes and Mark Reinhold and can
> be found at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/defpath.py
>
> I propose that the tool will use the same email list as the other
> Mercurial tools on code-tools, hg-tools-dev at openjdk.java.net.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> [0]: http://mercurial-scm.org/
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