[PATCH RFC] HGPLAIN: allow exceptions to plain mode, like i18n, via HGPLAINEXCEPT

[Brodie Rao]

On Jan 5, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Brodie Rao wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 00:21 +1100, Brodie Rao wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Brodie Rao <brodie at bitheap.org>
>>> # Date 1294147116 -39600
>>> # Node ID b653ec8e753a01653d46c70c56e72a37f5906f58
>>> # Parent  f3058dd052819de75908599d93a29241ba69318f
>>> HGPLAIN: allow exceptions to plain mode, like i18n, via  
>>> HGPLAINEXCEPT
>>
>> This wasn't what we decided on at the sprint, which just used the
>> contents of HGPLAIN.
>
> Sorry, I should've explained that addition.
>
> Henrik and I were discussing the patch on IRC, and I came to the  
> conclusion that using HGPLAIN to specify exceptions felt backwards.  
> Just looking at "HGPLAIN=i18n,foo,bar" by itself, I can't tell if  
> it's listing exceptions or if it's listing the things I want to  
> disable. I think HGPLAINEXCEPT is clearer.
>
> That said, I don't feel that strongly about it. Overloading HGPLAIN  
> would be OK with me.

Does anyone have any opinions about this change? Should I go back to  
overloading HGPLAIN? I'd like to get this into default for 1.9.