I was trying to follow exactly the instruction in the new (draft) development guide as at http://sagemath.github.io/git-developer-guide/ since obviously what is written there must work. Here are a couple of things I discovered.
1. My EDITOR environment variable is always set to "emacs -nw" since I use emacs and don't want to wait for a full X-window to open when I am connected remotely. This does not work with sage --dev coment: it raises an error. 1'. From home I reset EDITOR to "emacs" and tried again. I was running a shell in a tmux window on a server at the university to which I had logged in from home and recommented to the tmux session. Nothing happened -- no editor window, and no new prompt, I had to kill it with Ctrl-C. And when I woke up my office desktop this morning there was the emacs window patiently waiting..... I am not suggesting that the dev scripts need do anything about 1' since it has nothing to do with Sage, just me getting my DISPLAY etc misconfigured. But if something can go wrong for people in future, the sooner we see possible problems the better. I definitely think that 1 should be fixed (though of course meanwhile I can enter comments on trac as usual). 2. the dev. guide explains how to checkout a new ticket branch in order to do a review. It does not say how to end this process! Of course "git checkout master" works, but these instructions are trying to make it possible for developers to never have to type "git". And I tried some variations on "./sage --dev checkout master" but they did not work (error messages about numbers of arguments). John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-git" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
