[python-win32] Conversion to Mercurial is done

[Roger Upole]

"Vernon Cole" <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote in message news:AANLkTingKzzUt4KPzJUqa5DRT2iJiyS50pQtc6WA6aPb at mail.gmail.com...
> Working fine here.  Here's a sample for anyone who has not tried sourceforge
> hg before.
> I have PuTTY loaded on this machine, and already have my ssh keys set up on
> sourceforge -- just like with CVS.
> Mercurial is loaded using the binary installer.
> And, I actually remembered to load my sourceforge keys into Pagent before I
> started. ;-)
>
> In order to get read/write access, I used the ssh:// url as documented on
> the page Mark referenced.
> https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=hg&group_id=78018
>
> If your are reading a rich text (html) version of this, my input below
> is highlighted
> in yellow.
> Don't copy this exactly, you will need to use your own username where I have
> "kf7xm".
> I keep my mercurial trees in a C:\hg folder. YMMV
>
> I had the usual "The server's host key is not cached in the registry"
> problem.
> Solved by running a quick plink command to the server in question:
>
> <screen dump>
> C:\hg>plink kf7xm at pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net ls
> The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
> have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
> think it is.
> The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
> ssh-rsa 2048 86:7b:1b:12:85:35:8a:b7:98:b6:d2:97:5e:96:58:1d
> If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to
> PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.
> If you want to carry on connecting just once, without
> adding the key to the cache, enter "n".
> If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the
> connection.
> Store key in cache? (y/n) y
>
> Welcome to *.hg.sourceforge.net
> <snip>
> C:\hg>hg clone ssh://kf7xm@pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/pywin32/pywin32
> destination directory: pywin32
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 4100 changesets with 9863 changes to 1831 files (+1 heads)
> updating to branch default
> 1545 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> <snip>
> C:\hg>cd pywin32
> C:\hg>dir
> </screen dump>
> --
> Vernon
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
> wrote:
>> I've converted the CVS repository to a Mercurial (hg) and after a few
> tweaks [...]
>

Thanks for the tips.  I just got around to trying out the Mercurial
repository, and this was a big help.

While I was installing TortoiseHg so that I could pull down the
Pywin32 source, I discovered that it uses Pywin32 !

         Roger