Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
> Would a simple message suffice which says something like
>
> "You have uncommited changes which need to be committed before you can update
> without losing the changes. Do you want to commit now, or do you want to throw
> away these changes?"
>
> This in a three button error message with the buttons <Commit> <throw away
> changes> <cancel>

That's basically saying that you can't easily move around if you have
uncommitted changes.  The restriction, if there needs to be one, might
better be that if you go back in time you can't make changes relative to the
old versions if you have uncommitted changes pending on today's
version.   Most people in a simple linear history model won't want to make
changes relative to old versions anyways.