[PATCH] revert: allow configuring the .orig file location

[Augie Fackler]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Durham Goode <durham at fb.com> wrote:
> On 8/11/15 1:02 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:07:13PM -0700, Zainab Zahid wrote:
>>>
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Zainab Zahid <zzahid at fb.com>
>>> # Date 1438967257 25200
>>> #      Fri Aug 07 10:07:37 2015 -0700
>>> # Node ID 92707bacbef0292af14701d0e812cbbf7239f754
>>> # Parent  eabba9c75061254ff62827f92df0f32491c74b3d
>>> revert: allow configuring the .orig file location
>>
>> Why? Is having .orig in ignores insufficient?
>>
>> (I'm -0 on this patch because I can't think of a VCS tool that offers
>> it, and everyone's been fine with that for the past N decades...)
>
> We get lots of complaints that .orig files mess with tools, IDE's, greps,
> etc.  It seems straight forward enough to dump them elsewhere.

As a fraction of users, how bad is this? If it's 1% of your userbase
or some other low level, I'm inclined to tell them to suck it up, as
every feature introduces some extra maintenance complexity. Have you
pointed them to 'hg revert --no-backup'?