[PATCH 2 of 2] log: display the current node as "*" instead of "@" in the graph (BC)

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jordigh at octave.org
Fri Nov 28 17:10:56 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 11:12 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2014-11-26 at 15:23 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2014-11-24 at 16:49 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >>> # HG changeset patch
> >>> # User Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org>
> >>> # Date 1416865655 18000
> >>> #      Mon Nov 24 16:47:35 2014 -0500
> >>> # Node ID b0cfd48c238f446dfb0983e81a2af314f9347bdd
> >>> # Parent  eefc121a32a3e1ed848f603d062f20f2aff0cdbd
> >>> log: display the current node as "*" instead of "@" in the graph (BC)
> >> 
> >> Patch was pre-rejected. From IRC last week:
> > 
> > I figured it wasn't an official rejection until it was on the mailing
> > list.
> 
> You could probably have a config knob for this though?
> 
> (I know you're strongly opposed to things behind knobs and see them
> as useless, but it would be better than nothing for your use case?)

My use case is making it easy to teach hg to people. If I have to
first explain the config knob, this doesn't make it any easier than
explaining how "@" has different meanings in different contexts. I
also don't like to give people a magic config file without explaining
what it does.





More information about the Mercurial-devel mailing list