Scribes

Mercurial commit annotations

Asked by Yousry Abdallah

If I add following line to .hgrc

editor = scribes

I get following error:

/tmp/hg-editor-wn5jfe.txt does not exists

is there a working solution for this problem?

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Mystilleef (mystilleef) said : 		#1

Scribes creates new files that do not exist when you add the -n flag at the command line.

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Yousry Abdallah (yousry-abdallah) said : 		#2

To use scribes for hg commit annotations, an option like -w(ait) would be necessary. Otherwise scribes immediately returns the shell and mercurial cancels the commit because of an empty textfile.

However it is much faster to use the -m "message" option.

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Mystilleef (mystilleef) said : 		#3

There's an option in the advanced configuration dialog that prevents scribes from forking when launched from the shell terminal.

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Yousry Abdallah (yousry-abdallah) said : 		#4

Disabling the process forking solves my problem.
Thanks!