[PATCH] rebase: better error message when rebased changes are all in destination

Laurent Charignon lcharignon at fb.com
Tue Dec 29 11:37:31 CST 2015




> On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:41 AM, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Laurent Charignon wrote:
>> +  $ hg rebase -r . -d 10
>> +  abort: all selected revisions are plain prune or already exist in destination
>> +  (to force the rebase, set the config experimental.rebaseskipobsolete to False)
> 
> "plain prune" isn't particularly great ...
> 
> Also, please note that `prune` isn't a term that exists in hg+rebase,
> it requires another extension.
> 
> you might be able to replace "plain prune" with "obsolete"

Sure, "plain prune" isn't great but "obsolete"
does not mean the same thing and would be misleading. 
How about just dropping that part of the sentence ? Pierre-Yves might have some thoughts on that too.

Thanks,

Laurent


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