Implementation of Indexes Extension

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Wed Feb 15 23:14:15 UTC 2012


On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Sean Farley wrote:

> > > hg qref -s <file to add>
> > > hg qref -s -X <file to remove>
> >
> > OK, that's got to be one of the worst named options in hg, worthy of
> > git ;) It is documented all right, but my brain just always skipped it
> > when it read "--short". Out of curiosity, why is it named "short"?
> 
> The --short option has existed since mq was merged, the pre-merge repo
> seems to be lost, and we lost the original author to his little
> filesystem project years ago. So..  no one knows. Feel free to suggest a
> better name/description.
> 
> What about an --add / -a option (or replacement of --short / -s) that only adds the files listed (regardless of the files in the current patch), i.e.

This is already possible with the -I/--include option.

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Kevin R. Bullock

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