[Bug 5855] New: Hinting what to do next, after `hg amend` and friends are run

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https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5855

            Bug ID: 5855
           Summary: Hinting what to do next, after `hg amend` and friends
                    are run
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: 4.5.3
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: feature
          Priority: wish
         Component: evolution
          Assignee: bugzilla at mercurial-scm.org
          Reporter: faheem at faheem.info
                CC: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org,
                    pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org

After `hg amend` is run, Mercurial does not tell the user what to do next. It
currently says there are x new orphan changesets, and leaves it at that.

Most of the time, at least in the situations I've dealt with,

    hg evolve --all  

is the right command to get the repository back to a proper working state. Of
course, some other variation of `evolve` might be more appropriate, depending
on the situation.

So, it would be good if Mercurial told the user what to type in that situation;
some variation of `hg evolve` or whatever else was appropriate, assuming the
correct command could be determined reliably from the situation.

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