>>>>> "Antoine" == Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> writes:
Antoine> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:25:07 -0500
Antoine> s...@pobox.com wrote:
>>
>> I have a trivial little documentation patch for csv.rst. I committed it
>> locally, then I pulled and merged:
>>
>> cpython% hg pull
>> pulling from ssh://h...@hg.python.org/cpython
>> searching for changes
>> adding changesets
>> adding manifests
>> adding file changes
>> added 94 changesets with 422 changes to 154 files (+1 heads)
Antoine> 94 changesets? If you want to avoid risking conflicts, you should
"hg
Antoine> pull" and "hg up" (or "hg pull -u") before you start working on
Antoine> something (just like you "svn up"'ed before working on something).
Sorry, this workflow is still new and hugely confusing to me. To make a
simple edit to csv.rst I needed to do a couple pulls and merges, local
commits, resolve the same conflict multiple times, get rebuffed when I first
pushed because there was a tab in the file, and ask a question here. If
this is the typical route necessary to make even the simplest changes which
would have been a single commit with svn, my already meager rate of
contributions is likely to wither away to nothing.
>> The dev guide says something about collapsing changesets. Is that
>> collapsing commits within a changeset or collapsing multiple
>> changesets (whatever that might be)? Do I need this for a trivial
>> change? Can I just push at this point? Once pushed, how does it get
>> merged into the main codebase?
Antoine> Sincerely, I would really recommend that you read a Mercurial
Antoine> tutorial. We could answer all your questions one by one but
Antoine> that wouldn't help you much if you don't understand the
Antoine> concepts.
Thanks for the snide response. If I had time to read an entire book just to
learn how to do something I was doing in CVS and Subversion with no trouble,
I would have done so by now. I want to understand how to use the workflow
set up for this project. If you aren't willing to help me get past my
initial difficulties, please don't bother responding.
--
Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/
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