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| author | Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net> | 2007-11-01 14:33:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net> | 2007-11-01 14:33:12 +0100 |
| commit | ddf0bec03b3968033e978d7c84786cee733c32a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b81c1fa4d56153bbff04ee6a8db37bf6eec6567 /doc | |
| parent | 39f69f01cd583633439b7aa4690b70c148ad3f0f (diff) | |
devel-notes.txt: Mention where hg repo is, how to clone and update
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/devel-notes.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/devel-notes.txt b/doc/devel-notes.txt index 7a06eead..ec845ca9 100644 --- a/doc/devel-notes.txt +++ b/doc/devel-notes.txt @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ majordomo@mutt.org). Announcements about recent development versions go to that mailing list, as go technical discussions and patches. +Patches should, if possible, be made using Mercurial against +the latest revision. + You'll need several GNU development utilities for working on mutt: - autoconf (versions less than 2.59 are unsupported) @@ -121,7 +124,18 @@ something else. Getting started from Mercurial ------------------------------ -Once you've checked out a copy of the source from Mercurial, or changed your +The official Mercurial repository is located at: +http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/. You can get a fresh clone via: + + $ hg clone http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/ mutt + +As a result of CVS-to-Mercurial conversion, you need to do: + + $ hg update -C HEAD + +in the cloned directory. + +Once you've checked out a copy of the source, or changed your automake version, you'll need to run the script called './prepare' that is in the root directory. The script does all the automake/autoconf magic that needs to be done with a fresh checkout. |