Help designing the evolve UI

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Wed Apr 23 08:13:05 UTC 2014



On 04/23/2014 01:02 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
> I described an example where I thought the step-by-step evolving would
> be interesting:
>
>    http://mercurial.markmail.org/message/5kctrmri5cqjxclo
>
> It didn't feel very useful or powerful to me -- I basically had no idea
> if I wanted to run 'hg evolve' or 'hg evolve --any' or if I should have
> updated to another commit before running the two commands.
>
> In other words: the steps needed to bring a repository back to an
> untroubled state are completely opaque to me.

I looks like you got valuable material here.

However, if you are trying to revive this thread instead of updating the 
wiki, "you are doing it wrong"¹.

Please update the wiki page under either a "Use case" or "Pain Point" 
(pick what suit the best)

-- 
Pierre-Yves David

[1] Notice the baseless quoting to try to make the sentence nicer ☺ (and 
here is a free smiley)



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