Completely baffled

[Paul Boddie]

On 06/12/11 14:23, Lester Caine wrote:
>
> EXACTLY ....
> This has been my method of working for many years. One can 'update'
> blocks that one is not interested in, but finely monitor anything in the
> area you are working in currently. This is a tool Eclipse provides for
> CVS and SVN, but MercurialEclipse does not provide it, so one ends up
> cloaning to a local master and running BeyondCompare from the copy. This
> is currently a major backwards step in my own work flow ... Although
> things do seem to be getting there - slowly.

Maybe someone should write an extension. Splitting diffs up shouldn't be 
a magical activity, although diffs involving closely located fragments 
could pose some problems.

[...]

>> Shelve and my own ad-hoc invocations of "hg diff > tmp.diff" are
>> useful tricks,
>> but I wouldn't want to be constrained to a single working directory
>> and have to
>> rely on them for everything.
>
> That is what I said?

Not at all. I was just saying that those people who feel that Mercurial 
is operating in a particular directory, and that they shouldn't have to 
make it operate in another directory as well, should accept that 
juggling all that state is impossible without either committing 
unfinished work, allocating another directory, or using shelve, queues 
or something else. You seem to be comfortable with that realisation.

Paul