A tale of user-friendliness with "hg merge" and "hg rollback".

[Paul Moore]

2009/10/13 Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>:
> Explicitly trying to be dumb is one thing.  This was a one-line commit to a
> file that didn't have any changes within a dozen lines of that commit, a case
> where exporting a diff and applying it as a patch would have worked just fine.
> What surprised me was mercurial being dumber than diff/patch.

How is Mercurial dumber? Diff/patch doesn't commit either.

Diff/patch don't notice that you have other uncommitted changes in
your working directory, but it's a pretty long stretch to claim that
noticing this fact makes Mercurial "dumber".

Just because Mercurial doesn't do what you think it should, doesn't
make it "dumb". And criticising the software on such a basis doesn't
make people inclined to help you.

Paul.