dist-hg proof-of-concept ready for use

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Michael Schwendt schrieb:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:59:12 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> I've spent some time creating a proof-of-concept of dist-hg, that is the 
>> Extras package source controll converted from CVS to mercurial.

Many thanks Jesse, your work is much appreciated.

>>  It is now 
>> ready for some testing other than myself.  Getting packages out, making and 
>> committing changes, tagging, and building all are functional.
>> If you'd like to test it out, please see 
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/dist-hg
> The upper-case "FC-6" example did not work:
>   hg clone http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/extras/mock/FC-6 mock-FC-6
> When changed to "fc-6" it works:
>   hg clone http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/extras/mock/fc-6 mock-fc-6
> However, the "branch" file contains "FC-6", and some tags are upper-case,
> too.

While at it: I always wondered why "FC-6" in CVS is written in uppercase
and why it also contains a hyphen -- why don't we switch to what we use
as disttag already (e.g. "fc6) with the new VCS?

CU
thl