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utility: add a function to prompt user to choose a revision
This patch adds a utility function to interactively prompt user to choose a
revision to proceed in cases when there are multiple revisions which are
candidates.
The function will be used in `hg evolve`, `hg next`, `hg prev` etc. If user
feedback will be good, I plan to move it to core and use it at more possible
places.
| author | Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed, 14 Mar 2018 17:59:53 +0530 |
| parents | 016ffd74026f |
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.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org> .. Logilab SA <contact@logilab.fr> ----------------------------------------- Good practice for (early) users of evolve ----------------------------------------- Avoid unstability ----------------- The less unstability you have the less you need to resolve. Evolve is not yet able to detect and solve every situation. And your mind is not ready neither. Branch as much as possible -------------------------- This is not MQ; you are not constrained to linear history. Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoid unstability and conflict. Rewrite your changes only ------------------------- There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now. Rewriting other people's changesets guarantees that you will get conflicts. Communicate with your fellow developers before trying to touch other people's work (which is a good practice in any case). Using multiple branches will help you to achieve this goal. Prefer pushing unstability to touching other people changesets -------------------------------------------------------------- If you have children changesets from other people that you don't really care about, prefer not altering them to risking a conflict by stabilizing them. Do not get too confident ------------------------ This is an experimental extension and a complex concept. This is beautiful, powerful and robust on paper, but the tool and your mind may not be prepared for all situations yet.