On Jul 30, 4:10 am, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >
I would recommend using Mercurial, and actually if you are more comfortable with a GUI for doing such things, there's TortoiseHg available on Windows and I believe also on many Unix-like systems as well. In TortoiseHg the "Repository Browser" allows you to select two versions (on any branch at all, even two within the same branch if you don't feel like branching your changes), and right-click to "view Diff". Then a popup comes up where you can see the changes between the two versions in patch format, with a "save as" button allowing you to save the patch. If you have other changes as well you can select/ deselect changes to include in the patch on a hunk-by-hunk level. It's not for everybody, and I know some people are probably muttering obscenities about me under their breath right now, but if you prefer a GUI to simplify tasks such as this...try TortoiseHg. When you submit the patch to Bram, make sure to include the changeset ID which the patch is based off of. This will be the version pulled from Bram that you are diffing your changes with. There are 2 versions that you can refer to in Mercurial, one is a simple decimal number (similar to Subversion revision numbers) that gets incremented every time you do a commit. Since your commits are not going to be the same as Bram's DON'T use this one. Instead, use the long hexadecimal changeset ID, which is a hash of the changeset, and is unique to the changeset no matter whose repository it appears in. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
