Re: Updating gnulib sub-repository (was: Plans for Octave 6.1 release)

[Rik]

On 12/10/2019 10:59 AM, "Markus Mützel" wrote:
> Am 08. Dezember 2019 um 15:12 Uhr schrieb "Markus Mützel":
>> Am 07. Dezember 2019 um 21:49 Uhr schrieb "Markus Mützel":
>>> Am 06. Dezember 2019 um 23:01 Uhr schrieb "Rik":
>>>> The checklist of instructions is at etc/RELEASE.CHECKLIST and the
>>>> accompanying bug fix template is at etc/RELEASE.BUG_FIX_LIST. 
>>>> Traditionally I have placed these as pages on the Octave Wiki at
>>>> https://wiki.octave.org/Category:Development so that everyone could see the
>>>> status, and make changes without requiring excessive permissions.  I have
>>>> started things off by performing action item #1 : updating gnulib repo.
>>> That doesn't seem to have worked. There was activity in their git 
>>> repository during the last 8 months:
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git
>>>
>>> I don't know how to import those changes to our hg sub-repo though.
>> I pushed the following change to the instructions:
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/873ef98668d1
>>
>> This worked correctly for me locally. But I haven't actually pushed any 
>> changes in case this isn't the preferred procedure.
>>
>> It might also be possible to get rid of the first lengthy hg convert of the 
>> complete repository (~1 hour on my hardware). But I'm not familiar with git. 
>> It would probably work if we could derive the information for the splicemap 
>> directly from the git repository.
> The most important step of the procedure is still missing:
> I don't how to push to the gnulib sub-repo.
>
> Markus

jwe or Mike probably know what the correct procedure is.

--Rik