Using an External Mercurial Version

MacHg includes its own slightly modified version of Mercurial. There are several small but important changes which have been added to this version of Mercurial. Largely they center around changes which are important for GUI clients but might not be suitable for the main Mercurial software. Note I (Jason Harris) have submitted all changes back to the main Mercurial project whenever possible or applicable. You can consult the source code of MacHg for any changes to the included Mercurial binaries to see the changes, but some of the most important changes are to do with the handling of temporary files Mercurial creates. In MacHg it's important that these temporary files can be easily ignored using the apple OSX FSEvents manager to reduce updates and possible race conditions.

However some developers and other people might like to experiment with using a different version of Mercurial. Previously, I had included such a GUI option inside MacHg. However, despite multiple warnings users who experimented with this option were having problems. Thus upon reflection I removed the GUI option in MacHg to specify using a different Mercurial. Moreover, anyone who knows how to patch Mercurial can easily change the version included in MacHg for themselves.)