doc/README
author Greg Ward <greg@gerg.ca>
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:30:49 -0400
changeset 15194 0705f2ac79d6
parent 9419 3516a4e877c1
permissions -rw-r--r--
import: simplify status reporting logic (and make it more I18N-friendly) The old code printed (with ui.status()) the changeset ID created by patch N after committing patch N+1, e.g. applying patch1 applying patch2 applied 1d4bd90af0e4 where 1d4bd90af0e4 is the changeset ID resulting from patch1. That's just weird. It's also inconsistent: we only reported the changeset ID when applying >1 patches. And it's inconsistent with 'commit', which only tells you the new changeset ID in verbose mode. Finally, the existing code was I18N-hostile, since it concatenated translated strings. The new way is to print the just-created changeset ID with ui.note() immediately after committing it. It also clarifies what the user message is for easier I18N.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
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  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

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  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

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