Implementation of Indexes Extension

[Dennis Brakhane]

Never mind, seems like I missed Augies mail that already talks about
missing "add"

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Dennis Brakhane
<brakhane at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Alexander Sauta <demosito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've briefly looked through the description and didn't quite get why index
>> concept is better than mq. I mean, users like Mercurial for the absence of
>> such counter-intuitive and complex stuff in core distribution, and if they
>> want some extra power, they just turn on mq, which is IMHO a way better than
>> Git index.
>
> There are two things the the index does better than MQ:
>
> 1. The ability to add only certain changes to a file (qrefresh only
> supports adding everything)
> 2. The ability to incrementally increase or decrease the stuff that is
> contained in the changes:
>
> suppose i made changes to all files a, b, c, ..., z, but my changeset
> should contain only a,c,f,h,j,l,n,q and t.
>
> I now do "qref a c f h j l q t" (note that i forgot "n")
>
> If I notice it right away, I cannot write something like "hg qref +n",
> i have to list every file again "qref a c f h j l n q t", the chance
> being not small that I again forget a different file (and when the
> file names are actually long paths instead of single letters, it gets
> even harder to check that you did not forget anything)