Re: minor correction in container.txi, first contribution

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>> Instead of repeatedly doing rollback/commit, you may want to get
>> familiar with mercurial queues. A simplified sequence is:
>>
>> hg qnew my-first-patch
>> ... edit sources ...
>> hg qref
>> ... edit more ...
>> hg qref
>> ... even more ...
>> hg export -o ../my_first_patch.diff qtip
>> ... send patch to mailing list
> Thanks for the advice
>
>> perhaps we could add this to the contrib.txi guide...
> Here is a changeset where I added a second example using mercurial
> queues and slightly changed the introduction text.
>

I applied it, sorry for the delay.


> A question regarding formatting of examples:
> Is there a rule for the maximum line length of examples? If not I
> would suggest introducing one that makes sure that an example line
> fits on one line in all of the pdf and ps documents.
>

A good idea. I think that a vague recommendation "keep your example
code lines short enough to fit on pages in pdf and ps" should be
enough; feel free to add it. If you think a fixed width should be
prescribed, I suggest you start discussion in a new thread.


> regards
>
> Thorsten
>
>
>



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