Request to make hg pull -u --rebase more friendly

Patrick Mézard pmezard at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 05:22:46 CDT 2009


Jonathan Watt a écrit :
> Hi list,
> 
> I've been trying to teach some Mercurial newbies enough about hg to quickly get
> them off the ground and be productive. One of the first significant hurdles
> turns out to be pulling to keep up to date with the "central" repository when
> they have local uncommitted changes in their working tree (groking mq appears to
> be /way/ beyond them at this stage).

Or you can do it the normal way: let them finish their local work, commit and merge.

And if you really insist on having a linear history, replace the merge step with a rebase call.

--
Patrick Mézard


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