[Python-Dev] Submitting changes through Mercurial

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Work has been started on that, thanks!  Roundup should soon support the
> workflow described in the devguide for feature work, which will be awesome.

Make sure to submit issues to the meta tracker, please.

> I’ve tried to use a clone with a named branch for
> http://bugs.python.org/issue5845 and found those bugs:
> - The revset code is not robust against an hyphen in the branch name.

Ok, I'll investigate. Not sure whether the revset syntax even supports
that, though.

> - The first patch was empty (note that the repo was not up to date).

This I don't understand. What repo was not up to date?

> - After pulling, merging and pushing, the patch created contained the
> merge diff, not the useful diff with my changes.

Again, please elaborate. What is the "merge diff" that it contained?

> Another thing to make it rock more: In the repo list, use “#” instead of
> “:” as a separator between repo URI and branch name; it’s standard
> Mercurial form and will allow people to copy-paste the whole thing to
> get a clone of the repo up to that branch.

Ok, committed.

Regards,
Martin