Adjust developer walkthrough for two changes to mercurial queues syntax

[rbeezer]

hg qinit
hg -f qnew

are deprecated in newer versions of Mercurial (1.5) which some may be using (ie not using the version distributed with Sage). This patch includes text to transition to the new state of the syntax without abandoning the old.

CC: @sagetrac-alubovsky

Component: documentation

Author: Rob Beezer

Reviewer: Arthur Lubovsky

Merged: sage-4.4.2.final

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/8991

[sagetrac-alubovsky]

comment:1

Attachment: trac_8991-mq-syntax-for-developers.patch.gz

[rbeezer]

comment:3

alubovsky -

Thanks for the quick review. Probably best to give the release manager (who makes the final decision about adding this into "official" Sage) some idea of what testing you did. Such as something about building the developers manual without warnings, output looks fine, mq changes are accurately reported, etc.

Also, please put your real name into the "Reviewer" field and you'll get credit in the release tour and the Trac reports. ;-)

cc me when you submit that patch of typos you are collecting!

Rob

[sagetrac-alubovsky]

comment:4

Patch output looks fine, no warnings building with
sage -docbuild developer html

patch applied just fine, (not sure what mq changes are accurately reported means.)

[sagetrac-alubovsky]

Reviewer: Arthur Lubovsky

[sagetrac-alubovsky]

comment:5

I should add, i applied the patch to the latest version of sage-combinat repository, instead of sage-main, hopefully it makes no difference.

[rbeezer]

comment:6

Replying to @sagetrac-alubovsky:

(not sure what mq changes are accurately reported means.)

I was just suggesting you might note the content of the changes was correct. I don't have Mercurial 1.5 installed anywhere, so was working off documantation I could find online (which wsn't always helpful).

In this case, I think the sage-combinat repo is probably OK.

[sagetrac-mvngu]

Merged: sage-4.4.2.final