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Bug 200345 - Improve instructions how to get NB sources from HG for HG newbies
Summary: Improve instructions how to get NB sources from HG for HG newbies
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: www
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Content (show other bugs)
Version: -S1S-
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Jan Pirek
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
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Reported: 2011-07-25 11:53 UTC by LiborJelinek
Modified: 2012-05-25 13:21 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description LiborJelinek 2011-07-25 11:53:39 UTC
On page http://netbeans.org/community/sources/hg.html is how to get sources of NetBeans.

For me it was first time to use Mercurial. As somebody used to different VCS (me to Bazaar) I expected that issuing

$ hg clone http://hg.netbeans.org/main

is enough to get sources but this ends only with empty directory containing just hidden .hg subdir. I had to google a lot to get idea what's going on. It can be very useful for Mercurial newcomers to add notice that is is necessary to issue

$ hg update

to get actual files and folders comprising NB source (= workdir in terms of Mercurial).

Hello and thanks!
Libor
Comment 1 RobertPattinson 2012-05-25 13:21:48 UTC
SPAM - Removed by Administrator