Evolve Extension

This extension is not distributed along with Mercurial releases

Author: Pierre-Yves David for Logilab

This feature is experimental to be used only by experienced Mercurial user that understand underlying concept

1. Introduction

The evolve extension is an experimental implementation of the ChangesetEvolution concept. Most of it's content have been moved into core except:

• additional history rewriting commands
• the evolve command to automatically solves troubles
• some user interface warning messages related to obsolescence changesets troubles,

Current official home page: http://hg-lab.logilab.org/doc/mutable-history/html/

2. Additional Commands

uncommit:: extracts changes from a commit fold:: gather changes from multiple changesets in a single one prune:: discard changesets (using obsolescence marker) touch:: replace a changesets with one with the same payload but with a different node gdown:: move to the parent of the current checkout changeset gdown:: move to the children of the current checkout changeset

evolve:: automatically solve troubles affecting changesets

3. Additional UI Messages

• issue a warning when current working directory parent becomes obsolete
• issue a warning when a commands result in more troubled changesets