[PATCH 0 of 4] [RFC] Print the bisection status in the log

[Yann E. MORIN]

On Thursday 22 September 2011 035231 Greg Ward wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Yann E. MORIN
> <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> > Hello All!
> >
> > This patch series is just an RFC about how to print the bisection
> > status in the log. It is *not* intended to be applied as-is!
> 
> Awesome! Great idea -- I've been hoping someone would do this. Thank you!

I've had a little shell+awk script here that was doing exactly that, but
I was missing a lot of features, so I thought it was time for it to be
included in Mercurial itself, one way or another...

Cheers! :-)

[--SNIP--]
> The characters + and - have a pretty well-established meaning in
> version-control systems, taken from unified diff.

Granted. +/- is not what we want for good/bad, then.

> So... what about U+263A (WHITE SMILING FACE, ☺) for "good" and U+2639
> (WHITE FROWNING FACE, ☹) for "bad"? Crazy idea?

I disagree to using non-ASCII chars by default. Some fonts might be missing
the corresponding glyphs. Also, a lot of terminals are not UTF-8 aware. And
on mine, they just seem to similar in the font I am using (Monospace/9p).

Let's stick to using the initials for now. And then later add a configuration
entry in ~/.hgrc so the user can override it if needed/wanted.

Thanks for the comments! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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