On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:37 AM, John Cremona wrote: > 2009/6/25 Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com>: >> >> Robert Miller wrote: >>>>>> I think the following is a counterexample to "The trac_ prefix >>>>>> does >>>>>> not bring any useful information." >>>>> I still think it's not really, and it is just making the name >>>>> longer, >>>>> but I don't really care either. >>>> I don't see the use for it either, but it's not a huge issue for >>>> me. >>> >>> I should explain my workflow, as I'm probably not the only person >>> doing this (e.g. Craig). When I'm managing releases is one thing, >>> but >>> in daily practice, I always download patches to my home directory. >>> Think about it. Open a terminal, wget a patch, and this is what >> >> I presume that you're aware that hg qimport also takes http URLs and >> automatically downloads a patch and puts it onto the queue? Ever >> since >> Carl showed that to me, I don't think I've downloaded any patch >> with wget. >> > > I did not know that, which will be useful. What is the canonical > recipe for getting the patch's URL? When I try I sometimes find I > have downloaded some html thing by mistake.
At the bottom of the html view, there's a link entitled "original format" which gives the raw patch. It's the same as the html-view url, but with "attachment" replaced with "raw-attachment." - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---