problem with mq extension

Brendan Cully brendan at kublai.com
Tue Dec 13 23:11:31 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 00:08, Chen XI wrote:
> Commands like "hg add filename" is not necessary, I think, if we already
> use Mq to manage the changeset.
> 
> For example, refer to the Mq wiki page:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension#Command_Examples
> We just use "qnew patchname" or "qrefresh", then changes will be commited.

The unstated assumption of the 'vi filename' line is that 'filename'
is already being tracked by hg. qnew/qrefresh work exactly like
'commit' -- they will pick up changes to tracked files, but won't add
new untracked files. This is a safety feature.



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