From 4d75e85bb920e2daeef80542e42f6863e8f5ac62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rocco Rutte Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 14:33:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] devel-notes.txt: Mention where hg repo is, how to clone and update --- doc/devel-notes.txt | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/devel-notes.txt b/doc/devel-notes.txt index 7a06eead7..ec845ca92 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. -- 2.40.0