[PATCH 1 of 7] histedit: simplify computation of `newchildren` during --continue

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 1 oct. 2012, at 20:19, Augie Fackler wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> 
>> +    # is there any new commit between the expected parent and "."
>> +    # XXX does not take non linear new change in account (but previous
>> +    # XXX implementation didn't used them anyway
> 
> Perhaps we should abort here if that happens? Does that seem reasonable?

I'm not sure it's reasonable to Abort. It could be a valid usage from people who want to extract an independent changes in another branches. There is no related bug in the bug tracker so user does not run over it on their own.

> (This case never occurred to me.)

As this case was not handled before, my approach was to keep ignoring the case in this series.

We can keep discussing this while moving to the initial goal for this series. obsolescence support for histedit.

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Pierre-Yves David