On 14-Nov-2009, Jim Meyering wrote: | John W. Eaton wrote: | > Would the following patch be OK for recognizing Mercurial in the | > build-aux/bootstrap script? It seems to work for me. Maybe there is | > a better way of recognizing that a file is tracked, but I'm not sure | > what it is. | | Can you investigate that? | It'd be good to have a definitive answer.
I'll try to find out. | > Unfortunately, "hg status FILE" exits with a status of 0 | > even when FILE does not exist. | | I'll look more carefully later. | First, two details: please send patches in "git format-patch" format | (if you're new to git/gnulib guidelines, see these | http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/HACKING | though note that in gnulib we do maintain a ChangeLog file) Sorry, I'm new to git and I wasn't sure how to make a proper changeset. I'll try to follow the guidelines in the future. | Also mentioned in HACKING is the issue of copyright assignment. | Between these two tiny patches, you've reached the limit for someone | with no assignment on file for gnulib. I've requested an assignment form for past and future changes. jwe
