Making mq use git-style patches (was Re: Issues using mq on large projects)

[L. David Baron]

On Sunday 2007-03-04 15:35 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:36:53PM +0100, solo turn wrote:
> > On 3/4/07, Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> > >Thus spake L. David Baron:
> > >>  (4) Binary files in patches end up getting dropped (as a consequence of
> > >>      the patch storage mechanism).
> > >
> > >Putting something like this in ~/.hgrc should fix this:
> > >
> > >[defaults]
> > >qrefresh = --git
> > 
> > above the anser was:
> > [diff]
> > git=1

> One sets all diffs to use git-style patches, the other sets only
> qrefresh to use them.

For what it's worth, using

[defaults]
qrefresh = --git

also has the disadvantage that "hg qnew -f" doesn't use --git (using
0.9.3).

Perhaps hg qnew -f should invoke qrefresh with its default options
to avoid this inconsistency?

-David

-- 
L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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