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Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos

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From: Benjamin Peterson <bp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: vcs_info for mercurial doesn't detect shared repos
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:43:40 -0800
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014, at 01:14 AM, Frank Terbeck wrote:
> We used to use ‘branch’ as the file to check for but moved away from it,
> because it didn't work reliably with newer versions of mercurial (this
> might have changed again in the meantime, since I don't follow
> mercurial's development too closely).
> 
> Checking for ‘hgrc’ is not an option, because ~/.hg/hgrc is a possible
> configuration file location, which would lead to false positives in the
> user's home directory.

I see. Tricky!

> 
> If a mercurial developer has an idea on how to properly detect this
> particular extension, I'd be all ears. ;)

shared repos have a file .hg/sharedpath if that helps
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Regards,
Benjamin

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