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

[David Bateman]

Thorsten Meyer 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'!
>
> 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.
>   
Yes please supply a changeset as the documentation is clearly wrong..

Cheers
David



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