I break out my comments from the code to make them more readable. I comment all the changes as compared to current upstream. --[[Daniel Andersson]]
+> So, sorry it took me so long (summer vacation), but I've finally
+> gotten around to looking at this. Based mostly just on the comments,
+> it does not seem mergeable as-is, yet. Red flags for me include:
+>
+> * This is a big rewrite, and the main idea seems to be to copy git.pm
+> and hack on it until it works, which I think is unlikely to be ideal
+> as git and mercurial are not really similar at the level used here.
+> * There have been no changes in your hg repo to the code since you
+> originally committed it. Either it's perfect, or it's not been tested..
+> * `hg_local_dirstate_shelve` writes to a temp file in the srcdir,
+> which is hardly clean or ideal.
+> * Relies on mercurial bookmarks extension that seems to need to be
+> turned on (how?)
+> * There are some places where code was taken from git.pm and the
+> comment asks if it even makes sense for mercurial, which obviously
+> would need to be cleaned up.
+> * The `rcs_receive` support especially is very ambitious to try to add to
+> the mercurial code. Does mercurial support anonymous pushes at all? How
+> would ikiwiki be run to handle such a push? How would it tell
+> mercurial not to accept a push if it made prohibited changes?
+>
+> I'm glad we already got so many standalone improvements into
+> mercurial.pm. That's a better approach than rewriting the world, unless
+> the world is badly broken.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]
+
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
The comment just below the function declaration below is taken from `git.pm`. Is it true? Should ikiwiki support sharing its repo with other things? Mercurial-wise that sounds like a world of pain.
+> Yes, ikiwiki supports this for git and svn. It's useful when you want
+> a doc/ directory with the wiki for a project. I don't know why
+> it wouldn't be a useful thing to do with mercurial, but it's not
+> required. --[[Joey]]
+
{
my $ret;
sub hg_find_root {
I haven't tested the attachment code below. Is it run when there is an non-trusted file upload?
+> It's run when an anonymous git push is done. I don't know if there would
+> be any equivilant with mercurial; if not, it does not makes sense
+> to implement this at all (this function is only used by `rcs_receive`). --[[Joey]]
+
# extract attachment to temp file
if (($action eq 'add' || $action eq 'change') &&
! pagetype($file)) {
In this case we need to stay in default repo instead of srcdir though, so `hg_dir="."` _is_ needed, but not for the abovementioned reason :-) (maybe there's more to it, though).
+> Implementing some sort of anonymous push handling for mercurial is not something
+> you can funble your way through like this, if it can be done at all.
+>
+> Hint: `$_` is being populated by the specific format git sends to a
+> specific hook script.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
sub rcs_receive () {
my @c_infos_ret;
while (<>) {