Implementation of Indexes Extension

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi Dennis,

At Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:29:54 +0100,
Dennis Brakhane 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
…
> 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)

I think there is qrecord for that.

> 2. The ability to incrementally increase or decrease the stuff that is
> contained in the changes:

About easy decreasing I don’t know (you need to ask someone who actually uses mq in his workflows). Increasing is simple: Just add a new patch to the queue and fold the patches in the end.

If you want to actually track multiple patches, you are already beyond the capacity of the git index.

Best wishes,
Arne