Help designing the evolve UI

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Thu Apr 17 10:36:28 CDT 2014


>> Yes, we are discussing the evolve UI. And I'm taking a strong stand on "This
>> is too early to change this specific point". And yet this has all to do with
>> exploring a new frontier.
>>
>> I would like to close the specific point now.
>
> OK, but I'd just like to warn you that these things are a bit like
> cement. They start liquid and then all of a sudden they become solid.
> Defaults are important.

One of the reason evolve is experimental is that we authorize ourself to 
change the command line behavior at any time. This is not cemented yet.

>> graft, rebase, histedit, evolve, merge, push/push, any evolve command with a
>> --evolve flag, resolve, other stuff I've over looked.
>
> To tell you the truth this has not been a big issue for me in my
> mercurial usage. Maybe that is because I use TortoiseHg 95% of the
> time.

And probably because you have not been writing such command for years ^^ 
I do not expect user to be very aware of this limitation.

(I sugguest closing this thread of the discussion)

-- 
Pierre-Yves David


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