Filesets!

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Sat Jun 18 20:33:29 CDT 2011


On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 02:58 +0200, Isaac Jurado wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >
> > The oft-discussed filesets feature is now pushed. This does for file
> > selection what revsets did for revision selection. It works just about
> > everywhere a pattern is accepted. So you can now do things like:
> 
> Will it also work in .hgignore?

Not yet. It'd probably be a really bad idea as hgignore isn't meant to
be as fast as possible.

> > Unlike revsets, this doesn't have a proper query optimizer yet
> 
> Revset expresions are optimized?  Wow, I'll have to check that out.

Yep. There's something analogous to an SQL engine's query planner that
rewrites the expression for the most efficient evaluation.

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