The behavior of qpush (patch queue reordering)

[Dov Feldstern]

Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> I've been thinking about how MQ could allow for a more natural system for
> reordering patches (something better than "edit the series file by hand"),
> and what I thought of was a fairly simple change to the qpush command:
> 
> Currently when a user issues `hg qpush patchname`, it behaves just like `hg
> qgoto patchname`, in that it applies all the intermediate patches in the series.
> 
> Instead, I think that `hg qpush patchname` should reorder the patch queue so
> that 'patchname' is the next patch in the queue and then push it.
> 
> Does this sound like a reasonable proposal? With -m and a saved patch state,
> the command would even be able to merge a patch forward, which would be
> really useful if patches vaguely conflict with eachother.
> 
> --BDS

Not exactly what you're suggesting, but you might be interested in checking out 
the 'qup' extension (it appears on the UsingExtensions wiki page)