Re: Need help for a hg push

Mike Kupfer writes: > After you updated the ChangeLog and Makefile in ruby-modes, where did > you do the commit? I'm guessing you did it in ruby-modes, but not the > top level. I agree. (I thought that the need for a top-level commit was obvious, but I guess I'm just turning Dutch in my old age.[1]) > > Should I push the local changes in the subrepo (e.g. ruby-modes like I > > just did) or should I push all my changes from the top-level? > > IIUC, if you push from ruby-modes, you'll only push the changes in the > ruby-modes tree; the top-level ChangeLog change will not get pushed. > But if you do the commit and push from the top level, Mercurial will > take care of both repos (top-level and ruby-modes) for you. That's correct. It is not obvious to me that recursive commit is desirable unless Norbert *never* makes local changes of his own in packages in that tree[2], only changes related to releases and build infrastructure. The point is that he needs to pull in the package repo anyway, and he needs to do the ChangeLog and Makefile updates there, so he may as well commit there too. Then back up to the top level, make any needed changes there, commit, and push.