[PATCH 2 of 3] commit: add a -M/--reuse-message option to copy a commit message from a

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Sat May 16 19:43:57 CDT 2015


On May 16, 2015, at 3:06 AM, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05/15/2015 03:54 PM, Tony Tung wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Tony Tung <tonytung at fb.com>
>> # Date 1429655274 25200
>> #      Tue Apr 21 15:27:54 2015 -0700
>> # Node ID dc122dd80665762d8febe2db1a08ce00a63d5ab8
>> # Parent  18cadf9d058931ef00e5272d15cb5cf2ebc3a248
>> commit: add a -M/--reuse-message option to copy a commit message from a
>> revspec
>> 
>> One way to split up a diff that includes a refactor involves resetting to
>> the ancestor, and then committing the refactor first.  When committing the
>> main change, it's helpful to be able to reuse the commit message from the
>> earlier commit that includes both the refactor and the new functionality.
>> This makes it easy to grab the commit message.
> 
> My personal opinion is that we do not need this feature as an explicit commit flag. There is multiple reason for that.
> 
> 1) about two years ago, while using mercurial, I felt the need for such flag, but it eventually faded. Nowaday I really barely use it. I believe my need faded away because of two commands from evolve: "hg fold" the removed my need to use "revert+commit" to fold things together. And "hg uncommit" who removed my need to use "revert+commit" to redo a commit. (you can replace "revert+commit" with "strip -k+commit" too).
> 
> 2) achieving the same feature is already quite easy thanks to the shell. power. one can achieve the same result using `hg commit -m "$(hg log -r X -T '{desc}')"`. When I used this on a regular basis, I setup a 'desc' command alias and I was about to get -M using: hg ci -m `hg desc X` something concise enough for the frequency I needed it.
> 
> 3) We have to be careful of UI bloat and any option added to commit trickle down to a lot of the other command. The amount of different help changed in this patch is a good sign of that. The fact we added it on rebase, because of the --collapse feature that is already mostly foreign to rebase is also a good sign of that.
> 
> 
> To conclude. given that (1) we can provide better option for the same effect, (2) there is already option to get this done today with "reasonable" cost (3) commit is a very critical command regarding UI bloat. I do not think the Utility/bloat ratio is good enough for this new flag.

I’m inclined to agree with marmoute on this one, I’m afraid. This just isn’t something I see done enough to justify the ui complexity (and spending one of our precious short flags on.)

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