> On Apr 7, 2023, at 1:56 PM, Marcos Cruz
> wrote:
>
> Faheem Mitha escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2023-04-07T22:18:48+0530):
>
>> Yes, normally metaedit is intended to edit the existing commit message.
>> Hence it's natural to open an editor. What's the problem with that?
>
> I'm converting
On 4/7/23 20:32, Anton Shestakov wrote:
Yeah, I think metaedit was created as an ad-hoc solution to edit
commit messages, and then grew some flags for user and date, and even
--fold for some reason. Internally it can prevent editor from opening
(e.g. when -m or -l is present), but there's no
Aurélien Campéas escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2023-04-08T13:07:10+0200):
> How about "hg amend -u ..." ? IIRC it doesnt prompt for a commit message
> (unless -e is there).
You are right. But it fixes the parent of the working directory, not a
specific revision.
I have done a test: a shell
Le 07/04/2023 à 16:09, Marcos Cruz a écrit :
Evolve's `metaedit --user` and `metaedit --date` always open the commit
message in order to edit it. There's no way to prevent it? >
How about "hg amend -u ..." ? IIRC it doesnt prompt for a commit
message (unless -e is there).
Faheem Mitha escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2023-04-08T11:43:46+0530):
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, Anton Shestakov wrote:
> > Anyway, to disable editor try `HGEDITOR=true hg metaedit ...`.
>
> That works for me. But where is this documented?
It has nothing to do with Mercurial or Evolve, if you mean
Anton Shestakov escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2023-04-07T15:32:55-0300):
> I think metaedit was created as an ad-hoc solution to edit commit
> messages, and then grew some flags for user and date, and even --foldi
> It's not a very well-designed command IMO.
In fact, when you change the user or
Hi Anton Shestakov,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, Anton Shestakov wrote:
Yeah, I think metaedit was created as an ad-hoc solution to edit commit
messages, and then grew some flags for user and date, and even --fold for
some reason. Internally it can prevent editor from opening (e.g. when -m or
-l is
Hi Marcos,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, Marcos Cruz wrote:
Faheem Mitha escribió/skribis/wrote/scrit (2023-04-07T23:39:45+0530):
If you just want to change the user or date of the commit, there are
separate flags for that. Namely, -u, -U, -d, and -D.
Have you not looked at the help? See below.
