RFC: Phase UI (revset, phase command and others)

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Dec 28 16:36:34 CST 2011


On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 08:49 +0100, Gilles Moris wrote:
> > I find this spare number a quite interesting topic. But I did not processed
> > enough high priority item about phase to care about it yet. If you want to
> > drive a discussion on the topic of "what more phase could be useful for and
> > what are the draw back", go for it ! I'll try to feed it.
> >
> 
> No, I do not have any additional phase in mind. Just the idea that we may be 
> into trouble if we find an interresting intermediate phase concept after 2.1.

If we do, we'll almost certainly have much bigger problems than simply
fitting it between the existing phase numbers. So I think spacing out
the phase numbers (in 1980s BASIC style!) has a 95% chance of being
pointless over-engineering that will get in our way later.

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