[RFC] qdelete -> qpromote?

[Ezra.Smith at bentley.com]

I prefer qexport because the "symmetrical commands" argument works both
ways. qexport points you toward qimport, and qimport points you toward
qexport.

When I first used MQ, I worked through a standard tutorial...qinit,
qnew, make some changes, here's your patch, now use qdelete to commit it
for real. I didn't find qdelete difficult to discover, because there it
was, right in the tutorial. Strange command, but I accepted it and moved
on.

It was a while before I realized that I could use the
inverse-but-not-by-name operation "qimport" to take changesets and turn
them into patches, and that's the behavior that I found most exciting
about MQ. My original guess at qimport's functionality was "Oh, qimport,
I bet it lets me import patches from another queue somehow."

+1 for qexport

-----Original Message-----
From: mercurial-devel-bounces at selenic.com
[mailto:mercurial-devel-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Adrian
Buehlmann
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:52 AM
To: Dirkjan Ochtman
Cc: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] qdelete -> qpromote?

On 21.05.2008 14:09, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> Usage of qdel with -r (promoting MQ changesets to normal hg
changesets) is a
> little weird, because "saving to history" isn't exactly congruent with
command
> called "delete" or "remove". I propose we move the -r functionality
out of qdel
> into a new command called qpromote, which takes one argument (the
revision or
> revision range to promote). Possibly, there could be a default of
qbase:qtip if
> no argument is specified. I think this makes an important MQ command
much easier
> to discover for new users, and, especially with the default argument,
easier to
> use.

qpromote is good.

"hg qdelete -r qbase:qtip" is really obscure/scaring.

When I first read
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MqExtension#head-5590c3c
0753d1b3eed01462eff24a6eeb90d34cb
I really felt like looking at the wrong thing.

So, +1 for qpromote
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