Some initial impressions of phases

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Jan 25, 2012 10:14 AM, "Pierre-Yves David" <pierre-yves.david at logilab.fr>
wrote:
>
> 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

I missed that hidden changesets landed in 1.9! Is there some help about
them on the wiki or somewhere else? "hg help hidden" and "hg help hide"
return no info, and neither does google.

Angel
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