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


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