On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:25 PM, mabshoff wrote: > On Sep 10, 4:17 pm, "Joel B. Mohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 10 September 2007 18:21, Pablo De Napoli wrote: >> >>> I could not read your modification to my patch since you've uploaded >>> that as an hg bundle. I think that for trac the best would be to >>> upload patches in plain text. That way, trac knows how to format >>> it so >>> that it can be easy read on the web >>> (it would be nice to have something like trac but based on >>> mercurial, >>> rather than in subversion, but I doubt that such a program exists) >> >> Yes, I did put it up as an hg bundle. I agree these are annoying, >> but they do >> one thing nicely -- in that bundle are two patches which cleanly >> separates >> the patch you wrote and the modifications I made to it. That >> separation is >> not such a big deal here, but in general I think it is nice which >> is why I >> did it this way. Of course, you can apply this to a vanilla >> 2.8.4.1 with 'hg >> apply' (or whatever the hg_sage.<method> way is). For your own >> plain text >> pleasure, my changes are attached. >> >> I'd be interested to hear what other people have to say about >> proper trac >> etiquette with bundles and patches building on one another. >> > > I would say that bundles are better than a number of patches that have > to be applied manually one after the other. It is more painful to > learn how to use bundles (I can tell because I still am not 100% on > the finer points of merucrial like branching and so on), but in the > end the workflow ends up much better. There was a video tutorial by > William for SD4 I believe and I think it is only somewhere at > sagemath.org, so use that as a starting point.
Patches are much easier to read, but bundles are so much easier to apply (especially if there are several of them, or there are non- trivial dependancies). Ideally, one should be able to "open up" a bundle and view it as a sequence of diffs online--does the mercurial plugin for trac have such an ability? If not, it might be worth adding (as both trac and mercurial are both python and open source). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
