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= Use and Contribute to the sage-combinat tree : step by step =

Here are the basics steps in order to use and contribute some of your code to sage-combinat. Note that a patch has a unique owner so you should only modify a patch that is already yours.

~+1. Install sage-combinat+~

{{{
   sage -combinat install
}}}
 
~+2. Familiarize with moving around the patches+~

The sage-combinat is a set of ordered patches. The behavior of moving around those is done like a stack:
{{{
   hg qpop
   hg qpush
   hg qpop -a
   hg qpush -a
}}}
To know which is actually on top or which patches are currently applied or unapplied:
{{{
   hg qtop
   hg qapplied
   hg qunapplied
   hg qseries
}}}
Note that after moving around the stack of patches, it is a good idea to rebuild sage before using it :
{{{
   sage -b
}}}
To display the content of the current top patch, use
{{{
   hg qdiff # or
   hg qstatus
}}}
whether you want a complete diff or simply the name of the modified files.

~+3. Create a patch+~

Changes are always saved to the actual top patch currently applied. So before doing any changes, you must determine the patch where the changes should be saved. If it is your first contribution, start by creating a patch:
{{{
    hg qnew my_improvement_AB.patch
}}}
This creates a new patch right after the current top patch. Usually, a new patch is created on the top of the stack of patches and you can make sure of this by doing:
{{{
    hg qpush -a
    hg qnew my_improvement_AB.patch
}}}
It is suggested to add your initials (here AB) in the name so that everybody knows who owns what. TODO : Add more details about name of patch.

~+4. Do your modifications+~

Before making any modifications, make sure the current top patch is yours and is the one you want to add your modifications.
{{{
    hg qtop
}}}
Do your modifications to one or many existing files. At any time, you can review your modifications done since the last qrefresh (explained below) or since the creation of the patch by doing:
{{{
    hg diff
}}}
or
{{{
    hg status
}}}
to list simply the modified files. Note that you can't use qpop and qpush commands once you started modifications. If you added a file, you must specify it by the command:
{{{
    hg add <filename>
}}}

~+5. QRefresh the patch+~

Currently, the modifications are still not part of the patch as seen by the command
{{{
    hg qdiff
    hg qstatus
}}}
that does not display them. Use
{{{
    hg qrefresh
}}}
to put the actual modifications in the current top patch. You can see that it worked when typing the command
{{{
    hg qdiff
    hg qstatus
}}}
that should now include your modifications and by the command
{{{
    hg diff
    hg status
}}}
that should not display them anymore.

~+6. Do more modifications+~

You can now use qpop and qpush again and modify other patches you already created. Then follow again 1-3.

~+7. Commit your changes to the local mercurial database+~

After having done modifications to one or to many patches, you migth want to commit them to the local mercurial database:
{{{
    hg qcommit
}}}
It includes all the changes to the patches done since the last commit. An editor will appear for you to provide a description of all the changes you made.

~+8. Merge your changes with other sage-combinat developpers+~

There is a possibility that somebody else pushed changes to the server since the last time you updated your sage-combinat tree. The local mercurial database will be used to merge those modifications. First pull any recent changes on the server by doing :
{{{
    cd .hg/patches
    hg pull -u
}}}
and
{{{
    hg merge
}}}
if needed.

TODO : write about conflicts...

~+9. Push your changes to the server+~

Here is where you must be prudent. Before committing any changes to the server, make sure that sage -br works fine:
{{{
    hg qpop -a
    hg qpush -a
    sage -br
}}}
and that it passes the tests:
{{{
    sage -t <filenames>
}}}
Then push your server after making sure again that there is no new changes on the server:
{{{
    cd .hg/patches
    hg pull -u
    hg push
}}}