What do you do with MQ?

[Haszlakiewicz, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-
> 
> Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> * Arne Babenhauserheide <near_ono at jro.qr> [2011-12-13 06:46:57 +0100]:
> >> * shelve away changes, commit something else, get them back.
> >>    hg qnew stash-work-in-progress; hg qpop
> >>    hg qpush; hg qfinish tip; hg strip -k tip
> 
> I don't like the last line -- it feels quite unnatural to me to finish
> a
> patch just to strip it. I've certainly never used mq like that.
> Somehow,
> I feel that people that insist on getting the changes "out" of mq have
> misunderstood it -- you can just keep the changes in mq and work with
> them there.

Except that you can't because important operations are missing.  An example of one of the most basic things that you can't easily do:
  hg stat

Not being able to see what files I'm working with makes mq very difficult for me to work with.

eric