Re: commit

[Ernst Reissner]

On 07/21/2016 11:57 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 22:10:21 +0200, Ernst Reissner wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>> in the meantime i realized my failure:
>> hg commit just commits locally.
>> I did so and then I again cloned my environment without realizing that
>> that discarded all my changes.
>>
>> Tatsuro told me that if I want to provide a patch I have to hg export. 
>>
>>
>> Tank you for explaining all.. 
> Thank you for your contribution. I wonder what we could add to our
> documentation or web site to make the contribution process more clear to
> new contributors like you. Any thoughts? What did you read that gave you
> enough to know you had to `hg commit` but not that commits are local and
> have to be exported or pushed?
>
I found that there is a chapter in the manual on contribution: Appendix
D, which is quite good.

What is missing is a pointer from the website to the according part of
the manual.