[PATCH 1 of 1] mq: add functions to attach information items to patches

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Aug 11 14:29:31 CDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:56 +0200, Ingo Proetel wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Ingo Proetel <proetel at aicas.de>
> # Date 1313081661 -7200
> # Node ID 7f36cb5749a614fc32defa25ba96842f4c7d195e
> # Parent  3ab40477ce60e1757ceeaa49e2c9d2790fbb47e0
> mq: add functions to attach information items to patches
> 
> Allow programmers to attach some information such as bug ids or review ids to a patch.

Why do we want this in core?

> +    def attachinfo(self, idx, name, values):
> +        '''Attach some information items with a patch. The items get stored in
> +        the series file as comments in the form '#name:item0 #name:item1 ...'.
> +        If values is None the named items are cleared.

This doesn't seem like the best place to store this data, given that the
series file is intended to be user-editable.

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