Updating gnulib sub-repository (was: Plans for Octave 6.1 release)

[Markus Mützel]

Am 08. Dezember 2019 um 15:12 Uhr schrieb "Markus Mützel":
> Am 07. Dezember 2019 um 21:49 Uhr schrieb "Markus Mützel":
> > Am 06. Dezember 2019 um 23:01 Uhr schrieb "Rik":
> > > The checklist of instructions is at etc/RELEASE.CHECKLIST and the
> > > accompanying bug fix template is at etc/RELEASE.BUG_FIX_LIST. 
> > > Traditionally I have placed these as pages on the Octave Wiki at
> > > https://wiki.octave.org/Category:Development so that everyone could see 
> > > the
> > > status, and make changes without requiring excessive permissions.  I have
> > > started things off by performing action item #1 : updating gnulib repo.
> > 
> > That doesn't seem to have worked. There was activity in their git 
> > repository during the last 8 months:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git
> > 
> > I don't know how to import those changes to our hg sub-repo though.
> 
> I pushed the following change to the instructions:
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/873ef98668d1
> 
> This worked correctly for me locally. But I haven't actually pushed any 
> changes in case this isn't the preferred procedure.
> 
> It might also be possible to get rid of the first lengthy hg convert of the 
> complete repository (~1 hour on my hardware). But I'm not familiar with git. 
> It would probably work if we could derive the information for the splicemap 
> directly from the git repository.

The most important step of the procedure is still missing:
I don't how to push to the gnulib sub-repo.

Markus