[PATCH 4 of 4] subrepo: show detailed revision info for the divergent subrepo revisions
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 24 13:44:53 CDT 2014
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 23:15 +0200, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
> > Second, I could do that before this patch anyway: just open another
> > terminal, cd into the subrepo, and ask about the revisions.
>
> When you are using the command line it is possible to do as you say.
> However, when using TortoiseHg that is not so easy. We convert
> mercurial's prompts into modal dialogs.
..and this is exactly where my sympathy for your plight ends. I can't
let the UI design problems of a GUI app dictate how our command line
interface works.
Prompts are the command line's equivalent of modal dialogs. Modal
dialogs suck; prompts suck. The direction forward is making them go
away, not making them more elaborate.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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