[PATCH 2 of 3 RFC] obsolete: allow passing a revision to successorssets()

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 16 août 2013, at 02:39, Augie Fackler wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Pierre-Yves David
> <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 8 août 2013, at 09:48, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen wrote:
>> 
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen  <danchr at gmail.com>
>>> # Date 1375616619 -7200
>>> #      Sun Aug 04 13:43:39 2013 +0200
>>> # Node ID b1f7ae28c3e371a70ee363a4fbe5d50063a224fc
>>> # Parent  02c24ad6f4d2d954da11d128280978e25aaa48fd
>>> obsolete: allow passing a revision to successorssets()
>> 
>> Why do you need this.
> 
> 
> Because with troubled divergent changes, there's _no other way_ to
> figure out what the divergence is.

Knowing the successors set if a useful feature. but why do you need this very internal function to takes revision?

> I lost 30 minutes screwing around in a REPL to figure this out once, and this revset would have been a godsend.

(note: Until then you can use the debugsuccessorsset command)

revset ? successorsset return a list of tuple. how do you plan to use that usefully in a revset ?

if evolve doesn't already provide a revset for all successors, that a shame a can be quickly fixed.

-- 
Pierre-Yves