About changing the status of the --parent option of the hg backout command from DEPRECATED to WARNING

[André Felipe Dias]

Hi,

I understand why the '--parent' option in the hg backout command was turned
DEPRECATED in http://selenic.com/hg/rev/1209de02034e However, the term
DEPRECATED suggests that there is a better solution or command for the
problem, but there is not since its flaws are inherent to DVCS in general
due to the DAG itself.

Wouldn't it be better to change '--parent' status to something like a
WARNING and complement the '-v' help text? In this post
http://schacon.github.io/git/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt there is a
good analysis of the problem that could be helpful.

Regards,

André Felipe Dias
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