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

[Thorsten Meyer]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote: (on octave.bugs)
> 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
here is a changeset for this bug.

regards

Thorsten
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