On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Keshav Kini <keshav.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed. Mercurial's workflow is not really supposed to be carried out > by sending patches to people (the encouraged behavior is to use `hg > pull` from other people's repositories), so the default patch / export > format only includes a subset of the total information so that it can > be backwards compatible with ancient diff formats. Adding "[diff]\ngit > = true" to your ~/.hgrc is really necessary in order to make your > patches accurately reflect your changes (if using mq) or commits (if > not). Besides binary files, this also exports information about file > permission changes, for example.
Could we change the default to "git = true" as a patch to the version of hg we distribute with Sage? Or, alternatively, have a patch that prints a warning whenever Sage's hg is used but git = false? The second option would be safer, since a user might accidentally switch between using the Sage hg and a system-wide one... > > -Keshav > > On Mar 31, 4:00 pm, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> > 2) Patches should be made using *hg export tip*, and not hg diff. >> >> Don't forget that you need to use --git if you have touched any binary >> files. It may be best to add this to your .hgrc (I think this was mentioned >> in another thread recently). >> >> -Ivan > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
