Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] [new package] plotmm

[Tony Theodore]

On 1 October 2010 23:16, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>>> In general I recommend using a tool like git to prepare patches instead
>>>> of diffing directories. It's less error-prone and encourages
>>>> standardization.
>>>
>>> I fully agree, except that I'm using Mercurial (hg) for that task. ;-)
>>
>> Does that mean you create new repositories all the time or is there
>> some shortcut way to diff directories?
>
> I create ad hoc git repos as needed. "git format-patch" and "git am" are
> used to import from and export to the mingw-cross-env src directory.

So in the case of a failing mingw-cross-env build, would you do something like:

cd tmp-pkg/pkg-version
hg|git init
hg|git add
make changes....
commit
export|format-patch

I'll have to try that, it does seem easier than diffing directories.

Tony