[issue494] update to a branch or revision without having to use update -C

[Erik Gorset]

New submission from Erik Gorset <erik at medallia.com>:

>From Issue245:
> As far I understand, there is currently no easy way for the user to
> say "check out revision REV, whether or not it is linearly related to
> the current version, but DO warn me if I have modifications in my
> working directory".

If I want to change the workdir to another branch or rev, I'm forced to use hg 
update -C rev and risk losing uncommitted changes, if there were any. The only 
other option that exists, as far as I can see, is to clone the repository.

This is somewhat of a big issue if a project is using named branches heavily.

As update is maybe meant to work on the current workdir, maybe a new command is 
needed that will "change" the current workdir to another branch or revision 
(and complain if there is uncommitted changes).

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messages: 2746
nosy: erik
priority: feature
status: unread
superseder: Different behaviour for "hg update"?
title: update to a branch or revision without having to use update -C
topic: ui

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