[PATCH] histedit: pick an appropriate base changeset by default (BC)

[Augie Fackler]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 09:21:11AM -0800, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
>
>
> On 11/25/2015 12:37 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> ># HG changeset patch
> ># User Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
> ># Date 1445712999 -3600
> >#      Sat Oct 24 19:56:39 2015 +0100
> ># Node ID e76c43d21b1c92da903fc8c8b2887ce1926c1463
> ># Parent  61fbf5dc12b23e7a2a30cf04ebd9f096c42a1f61
> >histedit: pick an appropriate base changeset by default (BC)
> >
> >Previously, `hg histedit` required a revision argument specifying which
> >revision to use as the base for the current histedit operation. There
> >was an undocumented and experimental "histedit.defaultrev" option that
> >supported defining a single revision to be used if no argument is
> >passed.
>
> The whole effort of making histedit having better default is great. (Good
> default arguments are awesome).
>
> However, can you make sure this new default is easily overridable by the
> various extensions playing around with the concept of stack. See the work
> done in destutil.py and the similar work in rebase.py.

I just remembered that it's important for the planned work on topics
etc to be able to override this, so a big +1 on getting this behavior
hoisted out in destutil as something that's easy to wrap.

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Pierre-Yves David
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