Re: hg syntax bug in /doc/interpreter/contrib.txi?

[Thorsten Meyer]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote: (on octave.bugs)
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I generated a changeset of the current mercurial sources using the
>> instructions in doc/interpreter/contrib.txi (and without having much
>> prior knowledge of mercurial).
>>
>> The hg export command given there has not worked for me:
>>   > hg export ../myfirst.diff
>>    abort: unknown revision '../myfirst.diff'!
>>
> 
> Yes, it should read
> 
> hg export -o ../myfirst.diff tip
> 
> 
>> After consulting "hg export help" I used this command:
>>    > hg export tip > ../my_first.diff
>> which worked as far as I could see.
>>
>> Should the text in contrib.txi be corrected or do I just not know enough
>> about mercurial yet? If it is indeed a bug, I can provide a changeset
>> for it.
>>
> 
> please go ahead
here is a changeset for this bug.

regards

Thorsten

# HG changeset patch
# User Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>
# Date 1223029113 -7200
# Node ID ddd1c7cca7f96c292b38556b28679a4e537c43cb
# Parent  c9d6071b9696b8ba72496181b5dc64d87fa0f04e
hg syntax bug in mercurial example

diff -r c9d6071b9696 -r ddd1c7cca7f9 doc/ChangeLog
--- a/doc/ChangeLog     Fri Oct 03 11:55:44 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog     Fri Oct 03 12:18:33 2008 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2008-10-03  Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>
+        * interpreter/contrib.txi: correction of the mercurial example
+        
 2008-10-03  Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden>
         * interpreter/container.txi: minor correction of the text
         
diff -r c9d6071b9696 -r ddd1c7cca7f9 doc/interpreter/contrib.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/contrib.txi       Fri Oct 03 11:55:44 2008 +0200
+++ b/doc/interpreter/contrib.txi       Fri Oct 03 12:18:33 2008 +0200
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 cd octave
 # change some sources...
 hg commit -m "make Octave the coolest software ever"
-hg export ../cool.diff
+hg export -o ../cool.diff tip
 # send ../cool.diff via email
 @end example