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

[Steve Borho]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Brodie Rao <brodie at bitheap.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'm also fine with either.

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Steve Borho