Re: ediff-revision doesn't recognize Mercurial-managed source

[rusi]

On Mar 7, 8:23 am, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote:
> The core Python development team just switched from Subversion to Mercurial,
> so I'm trying to get my tool chain back into working order.  I have been
> using vc and ediff-revision from within XEmacs, but its Mercurial support
> seemed lacking, so I thought I would try making the switch to GNU Emacs.
>
> While it appears that the version of GNU Emacs (23.1) I downloaded from
>
>    http://emacsformacosx.com/
>
> has a vc-hg.el.gz file, executing vc-next-action (C-x v v) on a
> Mercurial-managed file seems to have tried to register the file with bzr!
> Trying to execute ediff-revision results in a "blah is not under version
> control" message.
>
> Do I need to sprinkle some sort of magic ~/.emacs magic pixie dust to get vc
> to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Skip Montanaro

What happens if you set vc-handled-backends to the singleton list
(hg) ?