confused about mq

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 8:56 pm, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On 1-Nov-06, at 5:39 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm trying out mq, but I'm confused.
> >
> > I imported a cvs archive with tailor.
> > Then I cloned it.
> > Then I modified some files, and used mq.  Here's the situation:
> > hg qapplied
> > ublas
> > mt_serialize
> >
> > There are 2 changesets applied.  Now, I want to get ordinary
> > patches for
> > these changesets.
> > hg log
> > changeset:   4:3bed270c174c
> > tag:         qtip
> > tag:         mt_serialize
> > tag:         tip
> > user:        ndbecker2 at gmail.com
> > date:        Wed Nov 01 20:18:28 2006 -0500
> > summary:     imported patch mt_serialize
> >
> > changeset:   3:f624131cc78d
> > tag:         ublas
> > tag:         qbase
> > user:        ndbecker2 at gmail.com
> > date:        Wed Nov 01 20:18:27 2006 -0500
> > summary:     imported patch ublas
> >
> > changeset:   2:67ea41d92590
> > user:        nbecker at localhost.localdomain
> > date:        Tue Oct 31 11:21:22 2006 -0500
> > summary:     hg patches saved state
> >
> > changeset:   1:4b054c84c6ed
> > user:        nbecker at localhost.localdomain
> > date:        Tue Oct 31 11:18:39 2006 -0500
> > summary:     patch queue: mt_serialize
> >
> > changeset:   0:cdcc3566179f
> > user:        nbecker at localhost.localdomain
> > date:        Tue Oct 31 11:17:14 2006 -0500
> > summary:     patch queue: ublas
> >
> > So, what is mt_serialize changeset?
> > hg export mt_serialize
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User ndbecker2 at gmail.com
> > # Date 1162430308 18000
> > # Node ID 3bed270c174ce76e0c7c990b14e616ae9887bc14
> > # Parent  f624131cc78d7dc505cd79d636fac914fd4eaad1
> > imported patch mt_serialize
> >
> > Where's the patch?  What am I doing wrong here?
>
> It should be there. How did you import it? Is there anything in .hg/
> patches/mt_serialize?

No.  0-length file.

I can see the changes I made to the files.

I used tailor to do the import from cvs.  Then hg clone to another directory.  
Then followed the mq tutorial to qinit, etc.  Sorry, I can't recall the exact 
steps.