Error 503 on Mercurial server

[Tony Mechelynck]

The latest changeset I have been able to download is the second
runtime change (dated 2025-11-05 23:14:23 +0100) after patch 9.1.1896.
This "latest runtime change" has Mercurial changeset ID 1961fe307a90
and git changeset ID 7dfdc7f6cb802d5283e2e0eedb87932b9cd2cb3 ; it
modifies .github/MAINTAINERS, runtime/ftplugin/sml.vim and
runtime/indent/sml.vim.

Since then, every time I run "hg incoming" I get "HTTP Error 503:
Service unavailable" and exit status 255.

Best regards,
Tony.

[Christian Brabandt]

Great, just yesterday I tweaked it to make it work again.

I am going to turn this off Tony. It's causing too many stability issues
on the Vim homepage for no additional benefit.

Best,
Christian
--
One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

[Tony Mechelynck]

Hm. I had thought to enable the Mercurial "git" extension but its help
is not very helpful. The following is all it says (for hg version
7.1.1):

git extension - grant Mercurial the ability to operate on Git repositories.
(EXPERIMENTAL)

This is currently super experimental. It probably will consume your firstborn
a la Rumpelstiltskin, etc.

(use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)

Best regards,
Tony.

[Marvin Renich]

* Tony Mechelynck <antoine.m...@gmail.com> [251106 12:37]:

> Hm. I had thought to enable the Mercurial "git" extension but its help
> is not very helpful. The following is all it says (for hg version
> 7.1.1):
>
> git extension - grant Mercurial the ability to operate on Git repositories.
> (EXPERIMENTAL)
>
> This is currently super experimental. It probably will consume your firstborn
> a la Rumpelstiltskin, etc.
>
> (use 'hg help extensions' for information on enabling extensions)

Tony, I use hggit. To enable it, add to your ~/.hgrc (or .hg/hgrc in a
specific repo):

[extensions]
hggit =

Then you can get help with «hg help hggit». Basically, you just clone
the git repo:

hg clone git+https://github.com/vim/vim.git

and then use it as a local Mercurial repo, including push and pull.

...Marvin

[Tony Mechelynck]

My Mercurial distribution (hg 7.1.1 from openSUSE Tumbleweed) includes
the git extension but not the hggit extension. Anyway, I've made the
jump and cloned the master git repository. Not that I like it. I
haven't (yet) implemented my few local additions (one line in
src/feature.h IIRC), and like previously, instead of modifying the
distributed files, I use

ln -svf ../Makefile
ln -svf ../config.mk.dist

once and for all in each of my shadow directories to keep these files
updated. Also like before, my configurations are defined in the
environment, a slightly different one in each shell, one per shadow
directory, so when a new patch comes in, I can compile all my
differently-configured versions of Vim in parallel.

Took me some time to find out that "git status" would tell me if I
need to pull, like "hg incoming" does it for Mercurial.

Best regards,
Tony.