Downgrading Mercurial in MacPorts
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Published on Mon, 3 Sep 2012 11:14:13 +0000
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Another Mercurial release, another broken extension.
Mercurial 2.3 breaks hgforest ... once more. Of course, with open source, the notion of backwards compatibility issometimesoften left as an exercise for the curious readers of said source code, so until someone gets around to fix up hgforest ... once more, to keep up with Mercurial's churn, one way to get hgforest working again is to downgrade to Mercurial 2.2.3, for example.
In MacPorts, assuming you have installed Mercurial 2.2.3 before, and it was updated to the broken Mercurial 2.3 version, it's pretty easy to get back to a working state:
Mercurial 2.3 breaks hgforest ... once more. Of course, with open source, the notion of backwards compatibility is
In MacPorts, assuming you have installed Mercurial 2.2.3 before, and it was updated to the broken Mercurial 2.3 version, it's pretty easy to get back to a working state:
sudo port deactivate [email protected]_1
sudo port activate [email protected]_0
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