Also there is an idea flying around to create something that will complement
qrefresh:
- maybe 'qammend'? or
- 'qrefresh --interactive'?
If we settle on '--interactive', then it would be conveniet to add this flag to
'commit' and 'qnew' as well.
I'm a former Darcs user, and I've discovered that it is very convenient to
actually perform development using MQ first, and only when the patches are
'ready' move them to project's history in stone.
Usually I work on some topic, temporarily forgetting about any version control,
and just do coding, experimenting, debugging, etc.
After some time, I approach a moment, where my work should actually go to
patches/commits, and here is the problem::
As it is now, there is no way to put part of the changes into one patch,
and another part of the changes into second patch.
This works, but only when changes are touching separate files, and for
semantically different changes touching the same file(s) there is now
pretty way to put them into separate patches.
For some time, I've tolerated the pain to run vim patches/... and move hunks
between files by hand, but I think this affects my productivity badly.
So, here is the first step towards untiing the problem:
Let's use 'hg qrecord' for mq, like we use 'hg record' for usual commits!
rationale
---------
I'd like to make MQ version of record -- qrecord.
>From the first glance it seemed to be easy -- the task in essence would be to
change call to cmdutil.commit() to something like mq.qrefresh().
As it turned out queue.refresh() and cmdutil.commit() have different semantics
-- cmdutil.commit() first scans for changes and then delegate the actual commit
to lowlevel func. On the other hand queue.refresh() do it all in once, and I am
a bit scary to change it.
Maybe the right way would be to first refactor queue.refresh() to use
cmdutil.commit() machinery, and then trivially adjust record, but I feel I'm
not competent for the task right now.
Instead, I propose we refactor record to be some sort of high-level driver, or
like a high-level decorator one can say, which will first interactively filter
changes, and then delegate commit job to high-level commiter, e.g. 'commit' or
'qrefresh'
So, this patch does just that -- refactor record to be generic driver, and
update 'hg record' code to use the driver.
'hg qrecord' will follow.
Python already lets one to embed RE flags directly in a regex, which
is a much nicer way to do things:
(?iLmsux)
(One or more letters from the set "i", "L", "m", "s", "u", "x".)
...
matchflags was introduced in 14a7e862c60f, and the record extension is the only
user. I've killed matchflag, and adjusted record code appropriately.
