[PATCH] summary: add troubles list to the output of hg summary

Matt Harbison mharbison72 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 22:20:14 CST 2015


On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:53:05 -0500, Matt Harbison <mharbison72 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:33:31 -0500, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> troubled: is actually not bad -- note the -d instead of -s.
>> it isn't great.
>
> "troubled" sounds slightly less awkward to me than "troubles" here (I  
> agree with Augie on that).  I like that it matches the revset, so not  
> new terminology.  Maybe that makes it good enough.
>
> I kind of like "instability" too, but I don't think we have that term  
> elsewhere and it is awfully close to "unstable" to an English speaker.
>
>> but what's wrong with "unstable: %d unstable changesets"?
>
> I think that the problem is that "unstable" is a specific form of  
> trouble.  IOW, "unstable: %d divergent changesets" is kind of muddying  
> the term, and "unstable: %d unstable" is awkwardly redundant.

Alternate idea:

unstable: %d changesets
bumped: %d changesets
divergent: %d changesets

That matches the revset names, and might be easier to parse.  But the ':'  
is in a different column than the other lines in the current release.   
Augie's 'evolve' idea would be aligned.


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