What do you do with MQ?

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-
> bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Arne Babenhauserheide
> 
> It’s general usecase is clear: manage a queue of patches against a
> given repository. But that is so vague that it does not say very much
> and it also does not describe everything you can do with mq. So it
> interests me, what you do with MQ in terms of actual actions.

MQ (especially in its versioned form) is invaluable for me for "customizing" our internal Mercurial/TortoiseHg deployment. Without it, it would be really hard to maintain patches to the core without cluttering up the original repo's baseline.

> * amend the latest commit:
>   hg qimport -r tip ; hg qrefresh; hg qfinish -a
> 
> * fold two changesets:
>   hg qimport -r REV -r REV; hg qpop -a ; hg qfold ; hg qpush ; hg
> qfinish -a
> 
> * do many test commits and fold them into one when finished:
>   hg qnew -m "change" 1; hg qnew -m "fix" 2; hg qpop 2 ; hg qfold 2 ;
> hg qfinish -a
> 
> * refactor commits to have atomic changes (one step per changeset):
>   (I failed to find an easy way here. What I’d need: hg qsplit: like
>   qrecord, but takes the changes out of one patch and puts them into a
>   new one. Then I could just qfold all related patches and qsplit them
>   into atomic changesets)
> 
> 
> Which mq actions do you use? (including those for tracking patches)

All 4 you mentioned I use too, with the addition of manually editing the patch-files for splitting and/or selective deleting. By far the most used action is editing meta-data (message/user) in the last commit. I don't use "rollback" at all...

Oh, and of course I use "strip" frequently (it still comes with MQ, right?). I would feel lost without it.
 
regards,
Fritz



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