Malcolm> When I was trying to use Patcher (from xemacs-devl 1.44 Malcolm> on XEmacs 21.1.14) ) to generate my recently submitted Malcolm> patch, it kept reporting the following error: Malcolm> It seems that your project is out of date. Please Malcolm> update it before running Patcher. Hi Malcolm, this and similar messages are bothering you and me and others. It only happens when you use M-x patcher-mail as opposed to M-x patcher-mail-subproject correct? It's good for patcher to do the sanity checking, it's just that the error messages are currently close to useless. What's your value of patcher-default-change-logs-updating when you get above error? Malcolm> I'd guess that it's asking me to do another "cvs update", Malcolm> but it still generates this message after I've done so. Malcolm> I've also looked at the source to patcher but can't Malcolm> determine what condition it's testing for. Malcolm> Could someone please tell me what I need to fix to get Malcolm> rid of this message? If you have a limited number of files to commit, try whether M-x patcher-mail-subproject RET project RET subject RET file1 file/2 works for you. Best regards, Adrian Malcolm> Thanks Malcolm> Malcolm Malcolm> -- Malcolm> The hidden, terrible cost of nuclear warfare is Really Bad Public Art. Malcolm> - Angus McIntyre, alt.peeves, 13/3/02. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Adrian> It only happens when you use M-x patcher-mail [...] correct? Malcolm> Yes. Adrian> What's your value of patcher-default-change-logs-updating Adrian> when you get above error? Malcolm> automatic Adrian> If you have a limited number of files to commit, try whether M-x Adrian> patcher-mail-subproject RET project RET subject RET file1 file/2 works Adrian> for you. Malcolm> Thanks, I'll give this a go as a work-around. Currently Malcolm> I don't have any subprojects set up; my patcher You don't need to set up subprojects. I only have projects for xemacsweb, packages, xemacs-21.5, xemacs-21.4, etc. You just list files relative to the chosen project. If you have a single file (possibly in a subdir of project) to commit, visit it and just use M-x patcher-mail-subproject and hit RET on the list of files. It will take the buffer's file by default. Malcolm> configuration is the bare minumum necessary to submit to Malcolm> xemacs-patches. Malcolm> Malcolm Malcolm> -- Malcolm> The hidden, terrible cost of nuclear warfare is Really Bad Public Art. Malcolm> - Angus McIntyre, alt.peeves, 13/3/02. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Didier> So either your ChangeLog file is out of date, or you already have Didier> filled it in, which is in contradiction with the automatic. Indeed, it is the latter that is the case. One of the ChangeLogs has an unrelated modification in it. Didier> If that's not the case, I might have missed something though. Tell me, Didier> ad I'll try to improve the message. I think that the message and/or documentation needs clarification. As you say above, the error occurs under two conditions but the error message only suggests action for one, nor does the info file mention problems with modified ChangeLogs in automatic mode (unlike the case of unmodified ChangeLogs in manual mode). Malcolm -- The hidden, terrible cost of nuclear warfare is Really Bad Public Art. - Angus McIntyre, alt.peeves, 13/3/02.