First, incomplete, but promising stab at converting pbranch scenarios to "changeset evolution"

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Idan Kamara <idankk86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht
> <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Changeset evolution" is Pierre-Yves David's (marmoute on IRC) take on
>> how we might finally be able to unify mq and pbranch, and get a sane
>> environment for evolving changesets over time (for instance, in a
>> review-feedback cycle, or just while polishing them ourselves). I
>> promised at the last sprint to write it up. My approach is to take the
>> extensive pbranch tutorial and convert it to one for evolution. Here's
>> the first step in this direction:
>>
>>  http://arrenbrecht.ch/mercurial/evolution/
>>
>> I believe it shows a lot of promise, and I equally believe converting
>> more of my tutorials will uncover further need for thought. I shall be
>> picking this up again after my 5 week vacation, unless someone beats
>> me to it.
>
> This looks very interesting. I began writing a small POC to experiment
> with this a little,
> so far I have `amend`, and a partial working `evolve`.

I'm implementing a prototype too now (didn't get yours, I'm afraid). I
push to http://bitbucket.org/parren/hg-evolution-tutorial/
occasionally.

-parren