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

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Thorsten Meyer <thorsten.meyier at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.
>

I applied it but merged the ChangeLog entries.

regards


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