rebase: preserve working directory parent (BC)

Mon Jan 20 17:05:36 UTC 2014

On 01/20/2014 05:58 PM, Mathieu Courtois wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just update my mercurial version 2.7.3 -> 2.8.2.
> I saw in the release notes that now rebase does not update the working 
> directory.
>
> As there is no issue number (what BC means ?), I don't know why 
> (performance/elapsed time is a valid one) but why is there no option 
> '-u|--update' to update the working directory ?
> The old behavior seems me natural.

Googling for the subject of this mail points at 
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-October/054319.html - 
that thread contains the rationale and some discussion of the patch.

/Mads