Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Building/SyncAll

Timestamp:

07/20/11 02:25:37 (23 months ago)

Author:

simonmar

Comment:

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Building/SyncAll

@@ -3 +3 @@
 A GHC tree consists of [wiki:Repositories multiple repositories]. The `sync-all` Perl script lets you operate over them all at once.
 
-The basic interface to `sync-all` is described in comments at the top of the source file: source:sync-all.
+The full documentation for `sync-all` is found by using the `--help` option:
+
+{{{
+  $ ./sync-all --help
+}}}
+
+(you can also find it by looking in source:sync-all)
 
 == Pulling new patches ==
@@ -17 +23 @@
 See [wiki:Building/Rebuilding] for how to update your build after pulling patches.
 
-You can also pull patches from another tree:
+You can also pull patches from another tree, by registering the other tree as a remote, and giving it a name (here `anotherghc`):
 
 {{{
-  $ ./sync-all -r /another/ghc pull
+  $ ./sync-all -r /another/ghc remote add anotherghc
+  $ ./sync-all pull anotherghc
 }}}
 
@@ -28 +35 @@
 
 {{{
-  $ ./sync-all -r /another/ghc push --dry-run
+  $ ./sync-all fetch anotherghc
+  $ ./sync-all new anotherghc
 }}}
 
 this tells you which patches there are in your local repository tree relative to the tree over in `/another/ghc`.
-