hg log -m, why is it deprecated?
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Sun Apr 28 08:56:59 UTC 2019
On 28Apr2019 17:47, Yuya Nishihara <yuya at tcha.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:01:06 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> "hg help log -v" says:
>>
>> -m --only-merges show only merges (DEPRECATED)
>>
>> What is the reason that this is deprecated? As a microcommitter I often
>> think the merge only graph log is a useful thing for getting a history
>> overview.
>
>That's probably because --only-merges is equivalent to -r "merge()".
Aha.
>It's sometimes unclear how command options are composed (e.g. OR vs AND),
>so we tend to avoid adding tons of options and instead introduced a mini
>language. See "hg help revset" for details.
Thank you, I'll do that.
I also am against adding tons of options.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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