[PATCH 3 of 3 evolve-ext RFC] commands: introduce a new command to edit commit metadata

Siddharth Agarwal sid0 at fb.com
Fri Mar 11 17:44:51 EST 2016


On 3/11/16 14:38, Danek Duvall wrote:
> I guess my point is that if it's not a backwards-compatibility issue (for
> histedit, at least), then why couldn't those subcommands be tweaked a) not
> to require being on the changeset in question and b) not do to working copy
> operations (if not required)?  Is there any reason anyone would
> specifically want one of those things to be true?  If not, why grow the
> interface instead of enhancing the existing one?

Good point. They probably can, but not without significant evolve support.

The other consideration I'd have is that histedit is also not the most 
usable command from the perspective of automation.

- Siddharth


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