Liquid HG, (was: Sprint discussions/topics/outcome?)

[Isaac Jurado]

Replying Nicolas Dumazet:
>2010/10/13 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr>:
>>>
>>>  * "Liquid HG" - a system for safely allowing mutable history (mpm)
>>
>> When do you expect this feature to be avaible ? (in other word does
>> it worth spending time on MQ ?).  Is there any document describing
>> this feature ? Will liquid hg allow easy way to share the mutating
>> part of the history (for review purpose) ?
>
> Liquid HG is, in a sense, an unified abstraction on top of all
> techniques that allow editing history.  Once it is done, we will still
> have multiple ways to modify history, but with a common vocabulary,
> and commands in core to propagate "liquid" changes, as well as ways to
> "freeze" liquid changes so that they're not editable again.

Very nice, but the name has already been taken :-P

http://bitbucket.org/bradobro/liquidhg/

It's on Google Code too.

> Spending time on MQ is definitely worth it: from MQ perspective,
> adding liquid HG features will just mean improving usability and
> extending features.

Will this allow pushing and pulling patch queues along?  I know I can do
it with a patch queue repository, but the use I give to MQ is very
volatile.

-- 
Isaac Jurado

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