On 29/07/10 22:23, David Fishburn wrote:
I need to update insert.txt and provide a patch to Bram.
I have never done anything like this (on windows if it matters) and was
hoping someone could give me a 5 second list of the commands (and any
backup files you take first) before doing this so I know what to send to
Bram.
I already pull using hg and build my own Vim if that helps with the
instructions.
I figure it would be something like:
1. Copy insert.txt to a backup location.
2. Edit insert.txt
3. Run some patch command against the 2 files to generate the diff.
4. Email the new patch file to Bram.
For step 3, I have patch.exe v2.5.9 for Windows.
Just need some command line help to generate what is needed and from
what directory is should be run.
Much appreciated.
Dave
patch is the programm you use to _apply_ a patch. To _generate_ a patch,
you would need the diff program, or, as Christian said, if you use
Mercurial you could use hg diff (see "hg help diff" for details).
So either (Method I, with diff):
1.
rem start at the top of the source directory tree
rem (the parent of src, runtime, etc)
mkdir ..\vim73
mkdir ..\vim73\runtime
mkdir ..\vim73\runtime\doc
cd ..\vim73\runtime\doc
copy /B ..\..\..\vim\runtime\doc\insert.txt .
2.
vim insert.txt
3.
cd ..\..
diff -C ..\vim\runtime\doc\insert.txt runtime\doc\insert.txt >
..\insert.txt.diff
4.
attach the resulting insert.txt.diff to an email to the vim_dev group.
Or (Method II, with Mercurial)
1.
do nothing
2.
hg branch vim73-tests
cd runtime/doc
vim insert.txt
cd ..\..
hg commit -m 'Proposed change to insert.txt helpfile'
hg update -r vim73
3.
hg diff -r . -r vim73-tests > ..\insert.txt.diff
4.
same as above
Or (Method III, with Mercurial and the mq extension)
1,2,3,4: I don't know, you'd have to figure it out yourself.
Best regards,
Tony.
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