Implementation of Indexes Extension
Dennis Brakhane
brakhane at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 14 22:29:54 UTC 2012
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Alexander Sauta <demosito at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've briefly looked through the description and didn't quite get why index
> concept is better than mq. I mean, users like Mercurial for the absence of
> such counter-intuitive and complex stuff in core distribution, and if they
> want some extra power, they just turn on mq, which is IMHO a way better than
> Git index.
There are two things the the index does better than MQ:
1. The ability to add only certain changes to a file (qrefresh only
supports adding everything)
2. The ability to incrementally increase or decrease the stuff that is
contained in the changes:
suppose i made changes to all files a, b, c, ..., z, but my changeset
should contain only a,c,f,h,j,l,n,q and t.
I now do "qref a c f h j l q t" (note that i forgot "n")
If I notice it right away, I cannot write something like "hg qref +n",
i have to list every file again "qref a c f h j l n q t", the chance
being not small that I again forget a different file (and when the
file names are actually long paths instead of single letters, it gets
even harder to check that you did not forget anything)
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