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obsolete: do not obsolete rebase --detach nullmerge revs

Rebase state contains the changesets to rebase as well as 'nullmerge'
entries used drive the merge strategy. These nullmerge were not rebased
and should be ignored, and certainly not be marked obsolete.

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From MQ To Evolve, The Refugee Book
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Cheat sheet
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==============================  ============================================
mq command                       new equivalent
==============================  ============================================
qseries                         ``log``
qnew                            ``commit``
qrefresh                        ``amend``
qpop                            ``update`` or ``qdown``
qpush                           ``update`` or ``gup`` sometimes ``stabilize``
qrm                             ``kill``
qfold                           ``amend -c`` (for now, ``collapse`` soon)
qdiff                           ``odiff``

qfinish                         --
qimport                         --
==============================  ============================================


Replacement details
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hg qseries
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All your work in progress is now in real changeset all the time.

You can use the standard log to display them. You can use the phase revset to
display unfinished business only and templates to have the same kind of compact
output qseries has.

This will result in something like that::

  [alias]
  wip = log -r 'not public()' --template='{rev}:{node|short} {desc|firstline}\n'

hg qnew
````````

With evolve you handle standard changesets without an additional overlay.

Standard changeset are created using hg commit as usual.::

  $ hg commit

If you want to keep the "wip are not pushed" behavior, you are looking for
setting your changeset in the secret phase using the phase command.

Note that you only need it for the first commit you want to be secret. Later
commits will inherit their parents phase.

If you always want your new commit to be in the secret phase, your should
consider updating your configuration:

  [phases]
  new-commit=secret

hg qref
````````

A new command from evolution will allow you to rewrite the changeset you are
currently on. just call:

  $ hg amend


This command takes the same options as commit, plus the switch '-e' (--edit)
to edit the commit message in an editor.

Amend have also a -c switch which allow you to make an explicit amending
commit before rewriting a changeset.::

  $ hg record -m 'feature A'
  # oups, I forget some stuff
  $ hg record babar.py
  $ hg amend -c .^ # .^ refer to "working directoy parent, here 'feature A'

note: refresh is an alias for amend

hg qpop
`````````

the following command emule the behavior of hg qpop:

  $ hg gdown

If you need to go back to an arbitrary commit you can just us:

  $ hg update

.. note:: gdown and update allow movement with working directory changes applied
          and gracefully merge them.

hg qpush
````````

When you rewrite changesets, descendants of rewritten changesets are marked as
"out of sync". You need to rewrite them on top of the new version of their
ancestor.

The evolution extension adds a command to rewrite the "out of sync" changesets:::

  $ hg stabilize

You can also decide to do it manually using::

  $ hg graft -O <old-version>

or::

  $ hg rebase -r <revset for old version> -d .

note: using graft allow you to pick the changeset you want next as the --move
option of qpush do.


hg qrm
```````

evolution introduce a new command to mark a changeset as "not wanted anymore".::

  $ hg kill <revset>

hg qfold
`````````


::

  $ hg up <top changeset>
  $ amend --edit -c <bottom changeset>


or later::

  $ hg collapse # XXX not implemented
  $ hg rebase --collapse # XXX not tested


hg qdiff
`````````

``odiff`` is an alias for `hg diff -r .^` it works as qdiff, but outside mq.



hg qfinish and hg qimport
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Is not necessary anymore. If you want to control exchange and mutability of
changesets, see the phase feature



hg qcommit
```````````````

If you really need to send patches through versioned mq patches, you should
look at the qsync extension.