[pypy-dev] speed.pypy.org and mercurial

[Miquel Torres]

Ok, thanks Anto, I'll have a look at it this weekend!

PS: If somebody has coded such a function, or feels like doing it that
is also welcome ;-)


2010/12/16 Antonio Cuni <anto.cuni at gmail.com>:
> Hi Miquel,
>
> On 16/12/10 09:29, Miquel Torres wrote:
>> Hi Anto,
>>
>> yes, that is expected, but no problem. Codespeed is designed in such a
>> way that it can support different version control systems. It is just
>> that there is only support for svn now ;-)
>>
>> So for mercurial support, I need to implement a function that takes a
>> changeset hash, connects to the hg repo and returns a dict with
>> 'date', 'user' and 'description' or 'summary' info. Anybody knows what
>> library I could use for that? or do I have to parse local 'hg log'
>> output?
>
> I think you have several options to do that. For the particular pypy case,
> maybe the simplest is to directly ask bitbucket for the changeset:
> https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/c55286db0781/raw/
>
> this has the advantage that you don't need any library but just an http
> request, but of course it works only for bitbucket repos.
>
> Alternatively, if you install mercurial you can then "import
> mercurial.commands" and use its public API from Python. Or as you said you can
> just execute hg log and parse the output: in this case you might be interested
> in the --template option, which allows you to format things exactly as you
> want, e.g.:
>
> $ hg log -r c55286db0781 --template '{author}\n{date|isodate}\n{desc}\n'
> Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
> 2010-12-16 10:01 +0100
> Document this publicly.
>
> see this page for more details:
> http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/customizing-the-output-of-mercurial.html
>
> ciao,
> Anto
>