GNU bug report logs - #22860
24.3; hg merge not too functional

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Reported by: Ross Boylan <Ross.Boylan <at> ucsf.edu>

Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Andrii Kolomoiets <andreyk.mad <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22860 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22860: [PATCH] vc-hg: prompt for branch to merge
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:46:48 +0200

On 23.11.2019 20:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> +*** The Hg (Mercurial) back-end now use tag and branch names instead of
>> +revision numbers as completion candidates on reading revision.
> Why "instead of revision numbers"? it sounds like a backward
> incompatible change.  Can't we use both revision numbers and
> branch/tag names?

It's a good change. You could see it in the patch I send yesterday too.

The user doesn't need completion for revisions, but they can still input 
them. And for a large repository, listing all revisions is hella slow.
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