Newbie question

[Doug Philips]

On or about Monday, February 02, 2009, at 02:59PM, Martin Geisler  
indited:
> Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> writes:
>
>> Precisely.
>> hg commit -m "Part 1 of 2: Mechanical changes <for task X>."
>> hg commit -m "Part 2 of 2: Manual changes <for task X>. Corrected one
>> overzealous mechanical change and added defrobnitzer."
>
> You should take a look at the group extension:
>
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/GroupExtension
>
> I don't think it will make bisect work on groups, but maybe it could  
> be
> extended to do that.

Maybe. Also not sure what the group commit would look like to someone  
who didn't have the extension enabled (say, the hgwebdir view of the  
repo, etc.)

groups are an interesting idea, but the problem with extensions is  
that you can't force them across the wire, and since .hgrc creation is  
so paranoid, you can't even keep them across local clones (this is  
related to losing all your policy hooks on a local clone too).

As was pointed out, 1.1.2 does have a --skip option on bisect, which  
somehow I managed to miss...

--Doug