BCP for patch submittal

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

Using mq might be a solution. I at first had my reservations, but by
now I just plain love it.
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch12.html#x16-26500012

-peo

On 9/20/07, Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
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> I would like to provide a small how-to for people to understand how to
> pull down our Mercurial repository, do some development, and submit a
> patch for their changes, but it's not entirely clear to me the best way
> to do this for changes that involved more than one (local) commit, but
> are not large enough to make patch submittal cumbersome.
>
> Except for cumbersomely large changes (in which case, patches or even
> compressed-changeset submittal may not be the way to go), I'd prefer
> that patches be sent to a mailing list set up for that purpose, and that
> they be human-readable (IOW, not bundles).
>
> I could recommend that people do their work, and when they're done, use
> "hg export tip", but of course this doesn't cover multi-commit changes
> against the core repo. I could recommend that they first create a local
> tag after cloning the core repo, and then do an "hg export tag:tip",
> which would be an improvement, but would also clutter the patch with any
> changes that happened in the trunk in the meantime, that they pulled
> down before preparing patches.
>
> I could recommend that they use "hg outgoing -p <trunk>", but my
> understanding is that the output format from that is not quite right for
>  use with hg import, and hashes, user info, etc would be interpreted as
> log info rather than metadata.
>
> Is "hg bundle" really the only reasonable way to go? And if so, is there
> a way to convert to/from bundles and export-style patches?
>
> I realize that mq is also an option, but this seems undesirable for the
> general case (plus, it's more learning for new patch submitters).
>
> It seems like there ought to be a way to do functionally what "hg
> bundle" does, but in an output format like what "hg export" does...
>
> - --
> Thanks,
> Micah J. Cowan
> Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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