Monitoring phase changes

[Alain Leufroy]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Angel Ezquerra wrote:


> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:31:40AM +0100, Angel Ezquerra Moreu wrote:
> >> I am trying to make TortoiseHg detect phase changes. Steve suggested
> >> that perhaps we could monitor the files that mercurial uses to store
> >> the phase information.
> >>
> >> Is this a good idea? If so, which files should we monitor?
> >
> > This is a good idea.
> >
> > .hg/store/phaseroots
> >
> > Do you have screenshot of the current state of phase integration in thg ?
> >
> > --
> > Pierre-Yves David
>
> This is how it looks like:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3954540/thg_phases_integration.png
>
> This corresponds to today's thg stable branch head. This does not
> integrate a few changes that I've done since then, but it will look
> essentially the same in the final version.

Great !

Although, why are you using a column to display phase name?

In my view, a dedicated smpbol on the graph may be easier to identify.
It is also more unobtrusive (phase shall be quite transparent for the user).

Here is phase intregration in hgview
http://public.octopoid.net/hgview-phase-integration.png

Perhaps I'm wrong ... :)


>
> Cheers,
>
> Angel
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Alain Leufroy
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