On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 02:37:02PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, Friedrich Hagedorn wrote:
[...]
> > recent commits. In order to metaedit the changesets with branched
> > ancestors together with an unclean work directory I need to do the
> > following steps:
> >
> > hg metaedit -r -4
> > hg shelve
> > hg hg evolve -aA
> > hg unshelve
> >
> > Is it possible to include the last three steps into metaedit? This would
> > be really convenient!
>
> `hg shelve` is itself quite a complex command, with multiple failure modes.
> So I don't see how it would be possible to bundle that in there. And yes, I
> agree that having to shelve/unshelve all the time is a pain, but I don't see
> a way around it, since a lot of evolve commands want a clean working
> directory.
OK, maybe a compromise would be to combine only
hg metaedit -r ...
hg evolve -aA
into metaedit. In this way you can just use metaedit without to know the
(logical) concept behind the evolve mechanism. Do you think this would
be possible?
Regards
Friedrich
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