Re: How to deal with octave HG archive correctly?

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:49 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> you notice that it will create new heads because someone else has
> pushed some additional changes to the master archive since the last
> time you pulled (should have only been a few seconds, so I think this
> would not occur often for us, but it is possible).  In that case, you
> should do
>
>  hg qimport -r tip

I missed that point. I didn't know this was possible.

> I think this method would also useful if you forget the "hg qinit"
> step before you start working on a patch, correct?  It should allow
> you to put a set of changes that you have committed locally in the
> patch queue before you pull and update from the master archive.

Assuming that you made some changes to the code, but didn't
commit them yet, you can easily convert the changes into to
mq patch by using "hg qnew -f patch_name". That's what I do
all the time...

Michael.