Instructions for Luke
If you want to use the source then something along the lines of
hg clone http://www.trash-media.de/hg/share/ YourDirectoryOfChoice
will get you a copy of everything. This requires Mercurial which is the version control software I happen to like. SVN smells...;]] There are more repositories to be found at http://www.trash-media.de/hg/, go on, have a look!
If you made a change you consider worth sharing there are a few options of how to do that. First you will have to commit your changes!
hg commit -m "My fabulous changes"
will do just that, attaching the message "My fabulous changes" to your set of changes, it will also record date, who you are etc for you.
Now you have the following options(in descending order of effort):
- put your mercurial repository online! This will allow everyone to look at your changes and get the ones they like. If lots of people like what you do this could be your claim to fame!
- use the export function of mercurial and email me the patch file.
hg export tip > ../forTim.patch
this will export all changes you made into the file forTim.patch, send that to me. When I receive your file I will merge it into my repository and all changes you made will show up as one big change with your name, slightly less cool as the previous one but you'll probably still get your fame. If you keep doing this gets tedious so I will start trusting you and ...
- give you access to my repo so you can contribute with a simple
hg push
see here for a slightly more elaborate discussion on how to share changes/patches with mercurial
Any questions? No? Good, let's roll!