I was aware you could set a default and default-push repository in .hg/hgrc, in fact whenever you clone a repository a default remote path is created for you.

You can actually put arbitrary names in there. For example, I have a repository “chatbots” that I cloned from Katie’s repository: http://katharos.id.au/hg/chatbots". I want to be able to push and pull changes from my repository as well as pull from her’s without typing the full path out at any time.


[paths]
default = ssh://hg@delx.net.au/chatbots
katie = http://katharos.id.au/hg/chatbots


The above snippet goes in the repositories .hg/hgrc, and I can now run commands like this:

$ hg pull katie
$ hg push

This pulls any new changes in from Katie’s repository and pushes them to the default, mine.

There’s a Git repository with the patch included here:
http://delx.net.au/git/offlineimap

I followed the plan John Goerzen suggested in offlineimap ticket 18. Here’s an overview of the changes.

• Use imaplib2 as it implements the IDLE command and a few other nice things. This is written by Piers Lauder, the author Python’s standard imaplib.
• Some small changes to the OfflineIMAP code were needed for it to work with imaplib2.
• Added a config parameter ‘idlefolders’ to specify a list of mailboxes to monitor. This parameter forces holdconnectionopen, keepalive and maxconnections to be sane values.
• Hijack the keepalive thread. Use the available connections for IDLE, one on each of the given mailboxes. If there are leftover connections we send NOOP as before.
• Added documentation to the sample offlineimap.conf