pbranch anyone?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 13:43 +0100, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
>> Is anyone besides myself using and/or happy with the pbranch
>> extension?
>
> I use it and like it a lot.
>
>> I'm asking so I know whether to try for adoption as a
>> regular Mercurial extension.
>
> It would be nice, but I think it needs some polishing before that. For example
>      * it has a bug that from time to time it asks me to merge two
>        unrelated files buring pmerge.

Can you reproduce this?

>      * it should able to create patches which are edible for 'hg import
>        --exact'. For this, the patch branches should also handle the
>        author (and maybe the date) metainfo similarly to the
>        pmessage/peditmessage commands.

For single patches, this is OK. But patches with dependencies won't
work because their base changesets are not know yet. (Or I'd have to
compute the target hashes myself. Hmm.)

>      * it would be nice to allow importing a patch as a pbranch (like
>        qimport does in mq).

Single changeset or series?
-parren