Alternative name for histedit

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:11:01PM -0500, dukeofgaming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've started looking into the histedit extension and I think it is awesome,
> but I feel the command name is a little awkward in comparison to all other
> commands, which are a simple and to-the-point word of what is being done.
> 
> I think "rewrite" could be a good fit (e.g. hg rewrite --outgoing)
> 
> I know that I can just make an alias, but I felt like sharing this.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David


changing the name would allow to changes the semantic of some arguments

    $ hg histedit --rev <rev>

    currently means edit all revision in "<rev>::."

This lead to very confusing stuff like:

    $ hg histedit --rev outgoing()

    currently means edit all revision in "tip(outgoing())::."

I would prefer to have:

    $ hg rewrite --rev <revset>

    meaning edit all revision in "<revset>".

    (possibly not caring about the descendant of that at all)

    Much like "hg rebase --rev <revset>" only rebase "<revset>"



-- 
Pierre-Yves David

http://www.logilab.fr/

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