qrebase extension

[Gregory Collins]

Gilles Moris <gilles.moris at free.fr> writes:

> On Tue May 6 2008 16:55:51 Gregory Collins wrote:
>> If something were to go wrong with the merge this has the potential for
>> losing work. In my local copy I'm going to do something like:
>> 
>>     ui.write(_("\nBackup queue saved to %s\n") % newpath)
>> 
>> instead. Backup behaviour should perhaps be a configuration option?
>> 
>> G.
>> 
>
> That's a pertinent request.
> What would you think of an --backup=yes|no option that would default to yes,
> and may be to false later when the code is stabilized.
>
> That way, it could be configurable in the default section oh hgrc:
> [defaults]
> qrebase = --backup=yes

That sounds good to me, although from configuring other extensions I was
expecting something like:

    [qrebase]
    backup=True

To Matt: in general, what are the "best practices" for configuring
extensions? The wiki seems to be mum on the subject.

G.