robert delius royar writes: No, you should do "hg pull -u", which updates the directory from the default "other repository". This starts out as the repo you cloned, and won't change unless you edit .hg/hgrc. The update, like CVS, merges. Yes. Because hg is so much better at branching, what you probably want to do is to keep a pristine checkout of XEmacs, and a separate checkout of your changes. so the initial clone would look like cd $parent hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs mv xemacs xemacs-upstream hg clone xemacs-upstream for f in $files_I_want_to_keep_from_my_version; do cp f xemacs/$the_right_place done cd xemacs hg commit -m "Bring in my existing local changes." and your update process would look like: cd xemacs-upstream hg pull -u # there should never be any merge conflicts cd ../xemacs hg pull -u # fix any merge conflicts here # if there were merge conflicts, commit Alternatively, you could use named branches. Initial clone: cd $parent hg clone http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs hg branch myxemacs for f in $files_I_want_to_keep_from_my_version; do cp f $the_right_place done hg commit -m "Bring in my existing local changes." and update cd xemacs hg checkout default hg pull # no -u because you're just going to overwrite # again immediately hg checkout myxemacs hg merge default # fix any merge conflicts here hg commit -m "Merge $date." (WARNING: The above use of named branches is as yet untested by me!) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Joachim Schrod writes: Thanks for the suggestion. Done in CVS, and you can see the results in http://www.dk.xemacs.org/Develop/ and http://www.dk.xemacs.org/Develop/hgaccess.html (For some reason automatic update of the main site and www.us.xemacs.org are failing at the moment, so you need to use the dotsrcm mirror.) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta