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[Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Mar 23 02:20:21 CET 2011 
On 3/22/2011 8:53 AM, Éric Araujo wrote:
>> I still don't understand what that's supposed to look like.  Is it supposed
>> to be a URL which refers to my local repository?
> No, to a repository published somewhere (hg.python.org, bitbucket (make
> a server-side clone of mirror/cpython), any other hosting service).
>
> You have to use one public repo per bug, as roundup will only use the
> default branch to compute the diff.  Maybe adding support for named
> branches so that you can have one repo used for many bug reports would
> be useful.
>
>> Sorry, I don't see a "Create Patch" button anywhere.
> On the right of the field containing the repo URI on
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11591

Pressing that button seems to create a duplicate patch, which is not 
good. Given that there is no connection between the repository names 
(which seem to be duplicated) and the resulting file name, there is no 
way to tell whether to press the button or what the result will be.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy
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