Implementation of Indexes Extension

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:46:36AM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 23:29 +0100, Dennis Brakhane wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> hg qref -i (with record extension)

This work on all the content of "qdiff" not just "diff".  Having a way to make
it work on "just diff" would do it.

> 
> > 2. The ability to incrementally increase or decrease the stuff that is
> > contained in the changes:
> 
> hg qref -s <file to add>
> hg qref -s -X <file to remove>
> 
> You owe the oracle one patch containing qrefresh usage examples.

Same apply here: you can not exclude changes on file already in the patches.


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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