Request for rebaseif extension to be provided by default with rebase

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 17:51 +0200, Sébastien Deleuze wrote:
> Could we have a feedback from Mercurial core developers (since rebase
> is a core extension) in order to know if a patch that would add
> rebaseif functionnality to rebase extension, perhaps with minor
> improvements like with internal:fail behaviour, would be reviewed if
> sent on mercurial-devel at selenic.com ?

I'm not terribly keen on the idea. It's a bit too reminiscent of fetch, 
which seems to mostly exist so that CVS refugees can put off actually
understanding Mercurial long enough to make really big mistakes rather
than small ones.

One measure of this is that no expert users care about fetch in the
slightest. It's just not part of their workflows or the workflows they
recommend to their users. As such, the code has been neglected for
years.

I fear we'd have a similar situation with rebaseif: lots of new users
using it, coming to the experts for help, and the experts saying "you
shouldn't be using that".

But if some expert users want to weigh in in favor of rebaseif, I'm
listening.

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