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

[Jason Harris]

On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Brodie Rao 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.

As Matt said HGPLAINEXCEPT is clearer to me...

Just my 2c

Cheers,
  Jas