On Sunday 23 May 2010 3:29:04 pm Gary Johnson wrote:

> > about the only thing i know i can do and do successfully is
> > the  clone, which i've done several times now but can't seem
> > to get back to 7.3 -- what i am winding up with is 7.2.437
> 
> I think you're missing update,
> 
>     hg update vim73
> 
> which you should do after the clone and before editing any
>  files. That will select the branch or revision that will be
>  the parent of your working copy.  I usually think of 'update'
>  as changing my view into the repo, or as changing the
>  revision that I'm working on, but that's not quite right and
>  I'm trying to change my mental model and my vocabulary to
>  match what Mercurial actually does.
> 
indeed -- i started over, again, this time with an update vim73 
right after the clone, and i now have my mods to feature.h 
combined with vim7.3 and my arguments to configure

thank you gary, that was exactly the step i was missing

and thank you, james, i will examine those links in an attempt to 
educate myself

sc

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