Help designing the evolve UI

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Thu Apr 17 08:59:08 CDT 2014



On 04/17/2014 05:04 AM, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> On 17/04/2014 04:27, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/16/2014 09:47 PM, Greg Ward wrote:
>>> +1 to "prune": "kill" is a bad name. I think "obsolete" can
>>> technically be used as a verb... but let's not. "prune" is good.
>
> "replace" would have my preference, because of the binary
> relation it expresses, which is absent from kill/prune.

-1

"replace" semantic fails short when there is not replacement. And this 
will be the most common case for this command (currently `hg prune`)

> About the "evolve" command ... right now I avoid it completely since
> (iirc) it does nothing you can't do with other existing mercurial
> commands (including graft/rebase).
>
> Is it needed at all ?

You are trolling me right?


To Jordi: For this discussion to be a success, someone (I'm looking at 
you) have to read though it and make sure relevant argument are gathered 
on the wiki page.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David


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