how to finish working on a topic

Danek Duvall duvall at comfychair.org
Thu Jan 4 19:57:39 UTC 2024


On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 08:01:47PM +0100, Christophe de Vienne wrote:

>Hello Danek,
>
>The topic will "disappear" as soon as you change the changeset phase 
>to "public". The information is still in the changeset but will not be 
>displayed anymore.

Yes; that's exactly the thing I don't want to do.  Is it possible that finishing 
without moving the phase to public could be supported?  I'd love to use topics 
when I can, but I think this is a must-have for me.

>A typical finish of a topic is a rebase (with collapse if you prefer) 
>on the default branch, then phase.

Okay, good to know; thanks.

>Note that "rebase" from within a topic will rebase it on its branch 
>head. So most of the time it looks like "hg up mytopic ; hg rebase ; 
>hg phase -p"

I'd discovered that; it's a nice shortcut.

Thanks,
Danek

>Cheers,
>
>Christophe
>
>Le 04/01/2024 à 19:38, Danek Duvall a écrit :
>>I haven't had the opportunity to play much with topics (or 
>>mercurial, for that matter, over the past few years), but I'm 
>>playing with it in a private repo.  It's completely local (no parent 
>>repo), and I'm keeping all changesets in the draft phase for now.  
>>I'm running 11.1.0 of the evolve extension, 6.6.1 of hg.
>>
>>I'm done working on my topic, and I want to "merge" it into the 
>>default branch, collapsing the changesets and removing the topic, 
>>but I'm not sure how.  I don't see anything about "finishing" in the 
>>topics help, and the only thing in the tutorial page about this I 
>>could find says that "the topic information will disappear when we 
>>publish the changesets", which is something I don't want to do.
>>
>>I did a `rebase --collapse`, which gave me the topology I wanted, 
>>but didn't get rid of the topic information.  I tried then `topics 
>>--clear`, but now `hg stack` gives me all of the changesets in the 
>>`default` branch and `hg topic` still shows the topic, but not 
>>active despite the working directory parent being the one changeset 
>>that's still in that topic.  This seems like a bug, or at least 
>>behavior I can't explain.
>>
>>(As an aside, the fact that `hg stack` emits nearly 300 lines makes 
>>me want a `-l` option for it.)
>>
>>Did I just miss something in the docs on what to do here?  Or is 
>>publishing the only way forward?  I can confirm that `hg phase -p` 
>>hides the topic, but if I force the phase back to draft, the topic 
>>reappears, so it wasn't removed.  I guess the information isn't 
>>actually removed until information is exchanged with another repo?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Danek
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