Re: [PATCH] vc-hg keep working when hg emits warnings

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi *,
>
> related to my latest post (regarding hgrc handling):

BTW, better send patches to bug-gnu-emacs, they won't get lost that way.

> When one works on an hg repository with an .hg/hgrc owned by someone
> else, hg emits a warning like:
>
> Not trusting file /home/foo/argh/.hg/hgrc from untrusted user foo, group foo
>
> on stderr.[1]
>
> Despite the warning hg still works as expected (ignoring the
> repositories hgrc).  So ignoring the warning is TRTTD for Emacs.
> Currently the warning text confuses vc, so that certain commands and the
> revision display in the status bare don't work correctly.
>
> The following patch achieves this by simply ignoring all output on
> stderr for vc-hg-state and vc-hg-working-revision.
>
> This might seem a little brute force, but its the most simple solution
> and I believe it should be free of unwanted side effects:

IMHO this is not good, there might be other reasons for hg to give
warnings, and the user would have no way to find out about it.

Is there a command line flag to turn off this warning?

A more robust option would be to change the parser to deal with the warning...