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

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Sun Dec 6 19:45:48 CST 2015


Matt Harbison <mharbison72 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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

I was also going to suggest this. It's explicit and unambiguous to my
native ear.


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