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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-07-27 10:05:34 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2007-07-27 10:05:34 -0300
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Update README.patches to reflect the newly-added hgimport script
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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i) To import contributed stuff to a developer's, a script is provided.
This allows an easy import of mbox-based patch emails.
- This is done with:
+ This is done with (called from the root tree directory):
./mailimport <mbox file>
For it to work properly, git tools need to be installed on the local
machine, since git has a gitimport script that is used by mailimport.
+
+ There's also a helper script to make easier to retrieve patches from
+ other mercurial repositories. The syntax is:
+ ./hgimport <URL>
+
Also, hg has a feature, called mqueue, that allows having several patches
that can be applied/unapplied for testing. mailimport trusts on it to work,
so, this extension should be enabled for mailimport script to work.