On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Barry Smith wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Jed Brown wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:25, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > You fix hg so it is not such a piece of shit that doesn't tell you what you > > changed by default, then this won't happen again. What the fuck do the > > mecurial developers think, I have any memory capacity at all? > > > > When running from the command line, I use hg diff before hg commit. > > That requires me to do an extra step before I know I have to do that extra > step (it is only have that I have typed hg commit that I see a mystery file > that I didn't know I changed.) So now it is a many step process > > hg commit ! crap see something in their I don't understand > exit emacs without saving > hg diff > hg revert > hg commt > > > > > I take it you have tried TortoiseHG, SourceTree, etc, and they don't do > > what you want? > > The problem with the GUI's is that they are ALL GUI, so I have to hunt > down the GUI icon, click on some buttons then close the GUI window manually. > While with command line I am right there and hg commit, pull, push etc can be > executed much faster > > What I want is the the editor that opens with commit display each file > changed and below some of the diffs. And then in the editor I can mark any of > the diffs if I chose as revert or as don't include in commit. Is that too > much to ask?
You want 'record' functionality for 'commit'. Yeah - it doesn't take commands from emacs - and has its own interactive command interface. So you can add the following to ~/.hgrc to make it default for 'commit' >>>> [alias] commit = record <<<<< > Or an hg commit that opens a simple GUI just for the commit (instead of an > editor) with all possible options of revert etc (bk had this 10+ years ago > and hg still doesn't have it). > 'qct has this - but then its not easy to install on mac. Satish
