[issue219] need a way to export all outgoing changes as a single diff

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:06:49AM -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:55:19AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> 
> > Okay, but now I'm wondering just what OpenSolaris should be gearing up
> > to use.  We don't want to see intermediate changesets in the "gate"
> > repository, so I've been assuming that we'll be making heavy use of mq.
> > Should we instead focus on helping make changeset squishing happen along
> > with rename-with-history?
> 
> We probably should play with both and see which model fits our needs
> better.  It could be that smaller gates -- individual bugfixes and the like
> -- can use changeset squishing and project gates could be managed with mq
> in mind (and individuals contributing to the project gate could use
> squishing in their own workspaces).  Indeed, the functionalities may be
> orthogonal in a similar fashion for anyone using mercurial.

I'd strongly encourage you to consider keeping the intermediate
changesets (they can contain valuable history) and instead look at
tools to collapse diffs when you're reviewing a branch. I believe
hg view can already do this.

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