Some initial impressions of phases

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:50:56AM +0700, Andrei Polushin wrote:
> Let me add another point on phases.
> 
> I wonder, could the phase concept be further developed following the idea
> previously described as "Hidden branches/heads"[2]?
> 
> I mean there could be no need for MQ extensions and most of its additional
> commands. We can just set certain changesets into a "top secret" phase and
> start treating them just like we treat patches imported into MQ, i.e.
> reorder them, split them, fold them. Strip could be a core command. The MQ
> guard concept looks similar to the phase concept. Multiple MQ queues are
> similar to multiple branches etc.
> 
> I'm sorry if I miss any previous discussion on this.
> 
> [1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Phases#Introduction
> [2] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PatchHandlingUnificationRFC
> #Hidden_branches.2BAC8-heads

There is plan in this direction detailled here:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MutableHG


-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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