[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 05:38 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

>While I understand the usefulness of the diff feature, it is not useful to
>everyone, e.g. those using almost exclusively ``commit -m message``.

The editor window doesn't pop up when you provide the -m flag, so the diff
output is not relevant.

>Of course it would be nice if hg made it easier (a hgrc option, for example)
>to do this.

Sure.

>BTW, I had not heard of hgeditor before, and wrote a small hg extension to
>do what you want (with HG: prefix :) before I saw that others had already
>replied with hgeditor.  The extension had 10 lines of code.

We should find a place (i.e. repository) to stash these useful add-ons and
hacks so that all Python developers can find them.

-Barry

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