no file comments for hg

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Jul 25 18:29:06 CDT 2006


On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Barry Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> > Yes - not having file comments makes it more difficult to go back in
> > file history.
> > 
> > But one way to look at it is - for some of these senarios - it meanas
> > multiple changesets should be created [with the correct grouping of
> > changes] instead of the atempted single changeset.
> 
>    Yes, the problem with this is that there is no decent way of
> making multiple change-sets.

 - quit emacs without typing in any comments  [so no commit is done]
 - 'hg status' to get the list of modified files
 - hg commit file1 file2 [ to make the appropriate changeset]

I use 'hg ct' though..

> If I could just edit out the files
> I did not want when doing the comment for a commit it would make
> life a MILLION times better (could that be added?).

I'll check on this on the mercurial list..

Satish

> 
>    Barry
> 
> > 
> > And perhaps some comments can actually go into the code.
> > 
> > Satish
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Barry Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >   Not having file by file comments for changesets is
> > > starting to annoy me.
> > > 
> > >    Barry
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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