Mercurial > hg > hgforest
changeset 114:7748e801692a default tip
Add README.
author | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> |
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date | Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:07:36 +0100 |
parents | edd7c5f97427 |
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files | README |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/README Sun Mar 06 10:07:36 2011 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +This is the IcedTea variant of the Mercurial Forest Extension. +http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ForestExtension + +The original forest extension was at http://hg.akoha.org/hgforest +but is no longer maintained. Mercurial adopted the somehwat similar +concept of subrepositories as officially supported extension. +http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Subrepository +This is not compatible with forests though (forsts require some +protocol extensions not supported by plain Mercurial). + +This repository is maintained to support the IcedTea and OpenJDK +hackers who are still using mercurial forests. It incorporates +changes from the following two forks: +https://bitbucket.org/pmezard/hgforest-crew +https://bitbucket.org/gxti/hgforest