[opensource-dev] Naive question about Bitbucket

[Lance Corrimal]

Am Wednesday 25 August 2010 schrieb Brian McGroarty:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Marine Kelley 
<marinekelley at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Pardon my naive question, but this is the first time I use
> > TortoiseHg, and I'm having weird results here. My Cygwin is too
> > old to update via cygwin-setup, I have to reinstall it
> > completely, and I don't want to do that. So I'm falling back to
> > TortoiseHg instead. And here is my problem :
> > 
> > I clone https://bitbucket.org/lindenlab/viewer-development and
> > everything works fine, I can run develop.py, build and test,
> > then patch, rebuild and retest, everything is smooth like a
> > dream. But when I look at the changeset on the webpage of this
> > project, none of the changes are included into what I have
> > downloaded. Sure it works, but I don't have the latest
> > additions. Naive me thought that whatever is listed on that page
> > is available in the sources... am I wrong ? If not, are these
> > changes public ?
> 
> I don't know about TortoiseHg specifically - but it sounds like you
> might be pulling, but not updating. "pull" downloads changes but
> doesn't apply them to your tree - they only sit in a database.
> "update" updates your tree. If this is the case, there's probably
> a checkbox that allows it to automatically update each time it
> pulls.


had the very same thing here.... now i activated the fetch extension 
for hg (on linux, dunno if tortoiseHG has that), and that gives me a 
"fetch" command that basically does what i'm used to from "svn 
update".


bye,
LC