Re: git cl config question

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:08:40PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
>> OK, thanks.  Next question - any ideas what's going on here?
>> 
>> $ git cl upload origin/dev/staging
>>  scripts/build/output-distance.py |   65 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>> No output from ['hg', 'parent', '-q']
>
> You've got $VISUAL set to emacs, which apparently isn't playing
> nice with the git-cl script?  Just for the lulz, try doing
>   VISUAL=nano git cl upload
> and see what happens.
>
>> Also, please let me know if I'm incorrectly assuming I should be using
>> dev/staging as the reference branch rather than master.
>
> 1) I think your above command is trying to upload the difference
> between origin/dev/staging and origin/master.  I could be wrong,
> but that's how I think git-cl works.

You are wrong.  It is the difference between origin/dev/staging and
HEAD, whatever the latter may be at the moment.

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David Kastrup