evolve 3.2 "released"

Sean Farley sean.michael.farley at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 22:04:06 CST 2013


pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org writes:

> Fixes and changes have been waiting in this mutable-history for too 
> long. I just tagged an evolve 3.2 version.
>
> The evolve extension experiment the changeset evolution concept. It is 
> EXPERIMENTAL and intended for ADVANCED USER. See for 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EvolveExtension details.
>
> This new version contains multiple small changes, adjustment for 2.8 
> compatibility and introduce new aliases for gup and gdown. Danch are 
> proposing to use previous and next to update to parent and children. 
> It's an interesting idea.
>
> There was multiple external contribution since last February. Thanks for 
> André Sintzoff, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen, Greg Ward, Julien 
> Cristau and Levi Bard for joining the adventure.
>
> Full changelog below.
>
> - conform to the Mercurial custom of lowercase messages,
> - added a small extension to experiment with obsolescence marker push,
> - amend: drop the deprecated note option,
> - amend: use core mechanism for amend (fix multiple bugs),
> - parents command: add "working directory parent is obsolete" message,
> - evolve command: allow updating to the successor if the parent is
>    obsolete,
> - gdown and gup commands: add next and previous alias, respectively,

Could 'gdown' and 'gup' be renamed completely? I often find that I type
'gd' or 'gu' as a typo and sometimes find myself in a merge prompt which
is quite frustrating.

> - make grab aliases compatible with Mercurial 2.8,
> - Tested with 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8,


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