[Python-Dev] devguide: Cover how to (un-)apply a patch. (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 19 19:47:54 CET 2011

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:20:01 +0100 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 19/01/2011 19:10, skip at pobox.com wrote: > Antoine> Ok, thank you but... are you suggesting something or not? > > Yes. Keep the vcs command recommendations simple. At least mention idioms > which likely to apply across a wider range of version control systems.

The revert works with svn, hg and bzr. Using patch is not going to work on Windoze unless cygwin has been installed.

You don't need cygwin, just something much smaller with "GNU" in its name: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/patch.htm

(yes, the suggestion is already in the dev guide)

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