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topic: check availability of obsutil.getmarkers() for portability Before this patch, topic extension causes unintentional failure with Mercurial earlier than 4.3, because obsutil.getmarkers() has been available since Mercurial 4.3 (tests for topic on mercurial-4.* branches fail, too). This breaks "minimumhgversion = '4.0'" declaration of topic extension. This patch fixes this issue in a straightforward way for simplicity on stable branch. I'm planning to centralize such portability logic in topic extension into topic/compat.py or so on default branch for efficiency at runtime, like as evolve/compat.py.
author FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy@lares.dti.ne.jp>
date Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:22:06 +0900
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Topic Extension
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This packages also provides the ``topic`` experiment in an independent
extension. It implements a new experimental concept to provide lightweight
feature branches for the mutable parts of the history. The experiments is still
at an early stage and have significant usability and performance issues when
enabled.

How to Install
==============

The ``topic`` extension is included into the ``evolve` package, so the same instruction apply.

Using Pip
---------

You can install the latest version using pip::

    $ pip install --user hg-evolve

Then just enable it in you hgrc::

    $ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
    [extensions]
    topic =

From Source
-----------

To install a local version from source::

    $ hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/evolve/
    $ cd evolve
    $ make install-home

Enable
------

The topic extensions is included in the evolve package. See the install instruction for evolve.

Then enable it in you configuration::

    $ hg config --edit # adds the two line below:
    [extensions]
    topic =

Documentation
-------------

* See 'hg help -e topic' for a generic help.
* See 'hg help topics' and 'hg help stack' for help on specific commands.
* See the 'tests/test-topic-tutorial.t' file for a quick tutorial.