hg qpop --help

[Chris Mason]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:24:39PM +0100, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have some questions about the qpop command. The built-in help gives
> the following text:
> 
> % hg qpop --help
> hg qpop [-a] [-n NAME] [-f] [PATCH | INDEX]
> 
> pop the current patch off the stack
> 
> options:
> 
>  -a --all    pop all patches
>  -n --name   queue name to pop
>  -f --force  forget any local changes
> 
> 
> * --name
>   Which queue name? Is the default .hg/patches? Can I specify a
>   different one here?

Yes, the default is .hg/patches.  You can give a different one, the
directory just has to exist under .hg/.  hg qpop -n is meant for the
three way merging process:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MqMerge

> 
>   So I tried the following:
>    
>   % hg qpop -n lala
>   using patch queue: /home/srei/work/hg/w2/.hg/lala
>   abort: no patches applied
> 
>   How can I create such a patch queue? I think "hg qinit" should
>   support the -n parameter also!
> 
> * PATCH | INDEX
>   PATCH is the name of the patch. But why is there also an index?
>   This disallows numerical patch names.

The index lookup is smart, it will prefer a patch named 100 over the
index 100.

-chris