[brailleblaster] Re: Can Mercurial produce zip files?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:15:01 -0600
A rather embarrassed thanks. I'll remember to check help in the future.
John
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:49:08AM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:> Hello,
> I won't give you the full answer as the help information will give you
> more detail and you can choose precisely what suits you best.
>
> Look at help for the archive command of mercurial:
> hg help archive
>
> This was easy enough to find just by doing:
> hg help
>
> This is what I like about mercurial, its help is useful and if you need
> more then the documentation available on the internet is good.
>
> Another way, probably not so good to get a clean copy is to clone the
> repository:
> hg clone old_repository new_location
>
> However if you just use archiving tools on the new_repository you will
> probably include the repository files as well (eg. .hg directory).
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 26/11/10 04:15, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Sure, I know I should read the manual, but I want to concentrate on
> >programming and design, so if I can ask an expert a question that seems
> >the best use of my time.
> >
> >I have produced a draft design for BrailleBlaster in a local Mercurial
> >repository. It would be nice if I could make a zip file for posting to
> >the list, but the directory contains lots of other files, so i want to
> >include only the files that have been registered with Mercurial. Can I
> >do this or something similar?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >John
> >
>
>
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