hg syntax bug in /doc/interpreter/contrib.txi?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Thorsten Meyer <thorsten.meyier at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I generated a changeset of the current mercurial sources using the
> instructions in doc/interpreter/contrib.txi (and without having much
> prior knowledge of mercurial).
>
> The hg export command given there has not worked for me:
>   > hg export ../myfirst.diff
>    abort: unknown revision '../myfirst.diff'!
>

Yes, it should read

hg export -o ../myfirst.diff tip


> After consulting "hg export help" I used this command:
>    > hg export tip > ../my_first.diff
> which worked as far as I could see.
>
> Should the text in contrib.txi be corrected or do I just not know enough
> about mercurial yet? If it is indeed a bug, I can provide a changeset
> for it.
>

please go ahead

> regards
>
> Thorsten
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