patch queues and having a patch own a file

[L. David Baron]

On Monday 2011-08-15 10:31 -0500, Tod Olson wrote:
> I'm using patch queues on a project, and am trying to figure out
> how to have a patch own a file.  The goal would be that a qpush of
> the patch cause the file to be created, and a qpop of the patch
> would remove the file.
> 
> For example: I've added a config file to someone else's code.  It
> seemed like "hg add" was the only way to get the patch queue to be
> aware of the new file, but now every time I run "hg qpop -a", the
> config file must be removed manually or reapplying the patches
> will fail.

If you're running an older version of Mercurial, you may need to
add:

[diff]
git = 1

in your ~/.hgrc (which probably isn't a bad idea anyway).

It used to be that using mq without this setting was madness, though
mq has gotten smarter since then (and I don't recall exactly when).

-David

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