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evolve: check if we should use stack template for each item in the stack We should probably just track the current topic and move all the logic in the template itself. However, this is a good first step.
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.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
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..                Logilab SA        <contact@logilab.fr>
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Evolve How To
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Add a changeset: ``commit``
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Just use commit as usual. New changesets will be in the `draft` phase.
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Rewrite a changeset: ``commit --amend``
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It writes a new changeset combining working-directory parent changes and parent.
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It will work on any `draft` or `secret` changeset. It will not work on `public`
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changesets.
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To understand what the result of amend will be I use the two following
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aliases   [#]_::
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    # diff what amend will look like
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    pdiff=diff --rev .^
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    # status what amend will look like
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    pstatus=status --rev .^
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This command can even be invoked on changesets with children, provided
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none are public.
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.. [#] (defined by the evolve extension for you)
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Move a changeset: ``grab``
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You can use ``hg grab <rev>`` to move a rev at your current location, making the
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old version obsolete.
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.. note:: grab is an alias for ``hg rebase --dest . --rev $@; hg up <result>``
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Delete a changeset: ``prune``
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A new ``prune`` command allows removing a changeset.
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Just use ``hg prune <some-rev>``.
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Moving within the history: ``gdown`` and ``gup``
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While working on mutable part of the history you often need to move between
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mutable commits.
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You just need to use standard update to work with evolve. For convenience, you
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can use ``hg gup`` to move to the child commit or ``hg gdown`` to move to the parent commit.
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Those command have ``previous`` and ``next`` alias.
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.. note:: Those commands only exist for the convenience of getting qpush and qpop
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          feeling back.
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Collapse changesets: ``fold``
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You can use ``hg fold`` to collapse multiple changesets in a single one.
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It takes two forms:
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``hg fold <rev>`` folds everything from you current changeset to `<rev>`
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``hg fold -r <revset>`` fold everything changeset matching the revset together.
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Getting changes out of a commit
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The ``hg uncommit`` command lets you rewrite the parent commit without
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selected changed files. Target files content is not altered and
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appears again as "modified"::
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To split on file boundaries, just use ``uncommit`` command.
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If you need a fine-grained split, there is no official command for that yet.
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However, it is easily achieved by manual operation::
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  ### you want to split changeset A: 42
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  # update to A parent
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  # partially commit the first part
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  # commit the second part
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  # informs mercurial of what happened
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  # current changeset (.) and previous one (.^) replace A (42)
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  $ hg prune --new . --new .^ 42
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For more complexe scenario we recommend the use of the histedit_ extension.
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.. _histedit: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/HisteditExtension
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Update my current work in progress after a pull
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Whenever you are working on some changesets, it is more likely that a pull
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will, eventually, import new changesets in your tree.
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And it is likely that you will want your work in progress changesets to be
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rebased on the top of this newly imported subtree.
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