Which repo should patches apply against? [was: Contributions silently ignored - now what?]

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:34:41AM +0100, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> > So please, do retry, and don't take it personally.
> 
> Shall do, thanks. One more detail question, though:
> 
> In http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ContributingChanges it says
> 
>   "Make sure the Patches you send apply cleanly against the current Tip."
> 
> But the tip of which repo? In
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/CrewRepository I see
> 
>   "Crew is where most changes go for review before being added to
> mainline. Multiple people have commit access to crew and do initial
> review of patches on the -devel list."
> 
> So is it crew? What exactly is the flow?

Crew is generally close enough to the mainline tip that it doesn't matter.

Pure bugfixes should be against the stable repo though.

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