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

[Pierre-Yves David]

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.

Thanks,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David