Adjust to modern mercurial version definition.
hg-stable$ hg log --patch mercurial/util.py
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changeset: 7640:
9626819b2e3d
user: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
date: Sat Jan 10 18:02:38 2009 -0600
summary: refactor version code
diff --git a/mercurial/util.py b/mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py
+++ b/mercurial/util.py
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@
"""Find the length in characters of a local string"""
return len(s.decode(_encoding, "replace"))
+def version():
+ """Return version information if available."""
+ try:
+ import __version__
+ return __version__.version
+ except ImportError:
+ return 'unknown'
+
# used by parsedate
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hg-stable$ hg tags
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1.2 7823:
11efa41037e2
1.1.2 7497:
11a4eb81fb4f
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