[PATCH 4 of 4] commands: split notes into note containers

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Sat Jan 2 00:55:42 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 19:18 -0500, timeless wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > This one should point people to --updaterev.
> 
> I'm not sure what you want here.

People mostly abuse "hg clone -r foo" as a shorthand for pull and update to foo
and are sad when foo is a tag. They should only be using -r (often WAY slower
than clone) only when they really need a precise subset of changes.

The right thing is hg clone -u foo. 

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