Usage of bzr-hg plug-in

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Thu Mar 12 21:38:30 GMT 2009


Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> A plugin for bzr which provides support for Mercurial file formats. It
>> currently allows pulling from (and eventually pushing to) hg repositories.
> 
>> which seems sufficient to me, even if it is a bit short. Anyway, if you
>> suggestions about how to improve this description, they're welcome.
> 
> It doesn't say *how* to pull from an Hg repository.  Maybe you tink it's
> unnecessary since it's "obvious", but as a user I would have appreciated
> a little blurb that says
> 
>   just do "bzr clone hg://blabla"
Do you mean something like "You can use most regular commands on hg
repositories" ? clone isn't the only thing that would work.

> same for bzr-git, obviously (which may also mention that it only works
> for the "bzr" protocol, and/or explain what syntax to use for other
> protocols like ssh/sftp/http/...).

bzr protocol ?

> The absence of any documentation on how to use it made me think that it
> was simply not ready for end-users.
It isn't.

Cheers,

Jelmer



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