mq and named queues - and qseries --edit. Was: Re: mercurial at 11238: 10 new changesets (3 stable)

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 06/07/2010 03:24 PM, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Gilles Moris<gilles.moris at free.fr>  writes:
>
>> On Sunday 06 June 2010 04:51:26 pm Martin Geisler wrote:
>>> Kevin Bullock<kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org>  writes:
>>>> I like the idea of having a --grab option, but not making that
>>>> behavior the default.
>>>
>>> No, that would probably be too much, not to mention totally backwards
>>> incompatible.
>>>
>>>> Here's why I like the option: the series file, although it's in
>>>> plaintext, is essentially serialized state of the patch queue. Letting
>>>> the software manipulate it that knows about its format seems
>>>> preferable in the normal case, even if manual hacking ability is nice
>>>> to have.
>>>
>>> Right.
>>
>> Isn't qpush --move already that ?
>
> Ehm, yes it is... how strange that I hadn't seen that option sneak in!

It was a spin-off from the --edit proposal, and actually I'm surprised 
that it got accepted without much discussion while --edit didn't. I 
would have preferred it the other way around.

--move haven't been released yet, so I guess it remains open for 
discussion and renaming.

/Mads