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

Idan Kamara idankk86 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 11:26:47 CDT 2011


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`.


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