GNU bug report logs - #63470
[PATCH] Use faster option for running vc-hg status

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>

Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 19:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 30.1

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry <at> gutov.dev>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
Cc: 63470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63470: [PATCH] Use faster option for running vc-hg status
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 22:43:52 +0300

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 15:28:43 -0400
> 
> As the comment says, this causes us to depend on Mercurial 4.2, which
> was released in 2017.  However, in modern Mercurial, removing the
> "re:" "-I" "." options provides a 10x-20x speedup (because it allows
> the Rust implementation of "hg status" to be used), so it's certainly
> worth losing this compatibility.

I don't understand: what will happen to users of Mercurial < 4.2?

And why cannot we detect the version and dispatch on that, instead of
doing this unconditionally?
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