How to patch starting at crew repository?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Jun 9 13:29:31 CDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:13 -0400, Mark Kendrat wrote:
> I went to http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew and found the zip link. It seems to be created by hg archive.I searched the internet for how to reconstitutea repo from an archive but I couldn't find any instructions.
> What I did was unzip, hg init, commit everything,make my changes and commit again. Is that how Imake a patch?
> It was the page http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChangesthat sent me to http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew
> Thanks,Mark

That's.. very creative. You want:

hg clone http://hg.intevation.org/mercurial/crew

But really, there's no particular reason to develop your patches against
the crew repo rather than the official repo at:

http://selenic.com/hg/

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