Re: Recognize Mercurial in build-aux/bootstrap

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Nov-2009, Jim Meyering wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > Would the following patch be OK for recognizing Mercurial in the
| > build-aux/bootstrap script?  It seems to work for me.  Maybe there is
| > a better way of recognizing that a file is tracked, but I'm not sure
| > what it is.
| 
| Can you investigate that?
| It'd be good to have a definitive answer.

I'll try to find out.

| > Unfortunately, "hg status FILE" exits with a status of 0
| > even when FILE does not exist.
| 
| I'll look more carefully later.
| First, two details: please send patches in "git format-patch" format
| (if you're new to git/gnulib guidelines, see these
|   http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING
|   though note that in gnulib we do maintain a ChangeLog file)

Sorry, I'm new to git and I wasn't sure how to make a proper
changeset.  I'll try to follow the guidelines in the future.

| Also mentioned in HACKING is the issue of copyright assignment.
| Between these two tiny patches, you've reached the limit for someone
| with no assignment on file for gnulib.

I've requested an assignment form for past and future changes.

jwe