[bug#48971] [PATCH 0/2] Add SWH support for Hg repositories

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 at 13:52, Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> wrote:
> This series adds SWH support for Hg repositories, meaning that if the
> upstream Hg repository is missing, Guix will try to fetch the source
> from SWH.  SWH has archived more than 250 000 Hg repositories that were
> previously hosted od BitBucket, so I think will be a useful feature.  :)
>
>   
> https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/09/17/250-000-endangered-mercurial-repositories-rescued/

Cool!  Thanks for working on this.


> Xinglu Chen (2):
>   swh: Support lookup of Hg tags.
>   hg-download: Support falling back to SWH.
>
>  guix/hg-download.scm | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  guix/swh.scm         | 10 ++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

LGTM.

All the best,
simon