ImportError: No module named mercurial: Clarify install documentation about git-remote-hg HOT 8 CLOSED

I don't understand why anybody would think that Mercurial wasn't needed. But it's mentioned now. b6e9475.

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A single script that is 1k lines long implements Mercurial internals. Yeah. Sure.

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Why wouldn't they? There are several reimplementations of git from scratch; for an outsider, who knows nothing about the internals of Mercurial and Git, it is conceivable that git-remote-hg is fully self-contained.

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Note the "for an outsider". To somebody who just uses git and mercurial, but has no clue as to how they work internally, or how different/similar their respective internals are, it is conceivable that a very simple "conversion script" is all that is needed. Alternatively, the script might automatically pull in whatever other requirements it has.

Of course for anybody who knows a bit more about the details would expect that Mercurial is a requiement. But if you follow that train of thought, you can stop writing any documentation and expect user's to know exactly as much about a given piece of software as its author.

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The script should be distributed with Git, and packaged by distributions, the user shouldn't need to do anything. It's not my fault the Git project chose to make it difficult to the users.

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Even if it was bundled was git, then the dependency on hg should still be documented by the exact same argument.

[Offtopic, but: I would argue (and am sure many people on the git mailing list would agree) that it is your fault that this script is not distributed with Git. ]

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git-remote-bzr requires Bazaar, git-svn requires Subversion, git-p4 requires P4, git-remote-mediawiki requires Mediawiki. Packagers already know that.

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Thanks for clarifying the requirement. I just think these days it is a standard, helpful thing to document requirements for software, especially when search engines lead to confusing histories. Cheers.

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