Moving from mq to hg-evolution

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quick reference:

mq command      equivalent

hg qseries      hg log

hg qnew         hg commit

hg qrefresh     hg amend

hg qpop         hg update

hg qpush        hg graft or rebase

hg qrm          hg kill

hg qfold        hg collapse

hg qdiff        hg diff

hg qfinish       --

hg qimport       --

hg qseries

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All your work in progress are now real changeset all the time.

You can then use standard log to display them. You can use phase revset to

display unfinished business only and template to have the same kind of compact

output qseries have.

This will result in something like that

  $ hg log -r 'not public()' --template='{rev}:{node|short} {description|firstline}\n'

  [alias]

  wip = log -r 'not public()' --template='{rev}:{node|short} {description|firstline}\n'

hg qnew

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With evolution you handle standard changeset without additional overlay.

Standard changeset are created using hg commit as usual.

  $ hg commit

If you want to keep the "wip are not pushed" behavior, you are looking for

setting your changeset in the secret phase. This can be achieved with the following sequence:

  $ hg phase --secret

  $ hg commit

Note that you only need it for the first commit you want to be secret. Later

commit will inherit their parents phase.

If you always want your new commit to be in the secret phase, your should

consider updating your configuration:

  [phases]

  new-commit=secret

hg qref

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A new command from evolution will allow you to rewrite the changeset you are

current on. just invoc:

  $ hg amend

This command takes the same option than commit  plus useful switch '-e' (--edit)

Amend have also a -c switch which allow you to make and explicit amending

commit before rewriting a changeset.

  $ hg record -m 'feature A'

  # oups, I forget some stuff

  $ hg record babar.py

  $ hg amend -c .^ # .^ refer to "working directoy parent, here 'feature A'

note: refresh is an alias for amend

hg qpop

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If you need to go back to a previous state just:

  $ hg update

hg qpush

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When you rewrite changeset, descendant of rewritten changeset are marked as

"out of sync". You new to rewrite them on top of the new version of their

ancestor.

The evolution extension add a command to rewrite the next changeset:

  $ hg evolve

You can also decide to do it manually using

  $ hg graft -O <old-version>

or 

  $ hg rebase -r <revset for old version> -d .

note: using graft allow you to pick the changeset you want next as the --move

option of qpush do.

hg qrm

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evolution introduce a new command to mark a changeset as "not wanted anymore".

  $ hg kill <revset>

hg qfold

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  $ hg collapse # XXX not implemented

  $ hg rebase --collapse # XXX not tested

hg qdiff

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 $ hg diff -r .^