Help-octave Digest, Vol 37, Issue 8

[Ben Abbott]

There was a long discussion on the choice of version control for  
Octave. The mercurial model was agreed upon by the developers.

Ben

On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:00 AM, David Doria wrote:

> Ok I'll give it a shot. Just curious - why use mercurial instead of  
> svn?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Ben Abbott <bpabbott at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 8:14 AM, David Doria wrote:
>
> David Bateman -
>
> What do I do with that .ksh file?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> It is the patch for scatter.m
>
> The lines beginning with "-" need to be removed and then replaced by  
> the lines beginning with "+".
>
> The developers use a mercurial archive. If you have one ...
>
>        hg import attachment-0001.ksh
>
> If you don't have a mercurial archive, delete the portion preceding  
> the line beginning with "diff --git ..." and apply it with the patch  
> command.
>
> If you don't know what any of this means, or don't want to bother,  
> you can manually apply the changes to your __scatter__.m
>
> To edit __scatter__.m, type "edit __scatter.m" at octave's command  
> prompt.
>
> Ben
>
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