On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Not without having someone over your shoulder, which is why I still >> > don't/can't use them. (Maybe Rob and Jason will finally teach me when >> > they visit in June!). >> >> Sure. For a single patch, do >> >> hg qnew -f some_name # create a changeset >> hg qref -e # refresh the patch, including the commit message, as many >> times as you want >> hg qfinish tip # turn the patch into an actual commit >> > > I see. I guess for me I don't see the point of creating a new patch > (again, for multiple strands I definitely see the point); I just wait > until I'm done. Already my eyes glaze over ... :) But, like I said, > Jason now has to promise to give me an in-person tutorial after fried > clams! > >> > What's the point with a single patch? I use a >> > combination of rollback and --no-commit for now. >> >> For creating good commit messages. Also, they're handy if you want to >> try something out and that you want to easily be able to revert. >> > > Again, hg_sage.rollback() and hg_sage.revert(options='--all') do that > now for a single patch. > > In fact, I should really make hg_sage.revert_all() as an alias for > that. Is there a problem with adding new commands like that, or > should we only stick to ones which are actual HG commands?
Go for it! I wrote hg_sage in a big hurry, and had always expected *YOU* were going to come along and greatly improve it, e.g., filling out all the capabilities, adding full support for queues, etc. William > >> > Random remark: One reason why HG alone is much harder than in Sage is >> > that there is no tab completion of the various HG commands, no >> > interactive verbose help accessible as easily with a ?, etc. That has >> > saved me in hg_sage many, many times. >> >> One note--you don't have to type the whole command, just enough to >> make it unique. (Not as good as tab completion, but nice). > > That's actually quite interesting! Thanks; it could actually help me > make the transition. > > - kcrisman > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
