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Re: Linear changes to hg history


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: Linear changes to hg history
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:48:45 +0100

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> Juan,
>
> Even if the process was manual this time (no use of rebase extension), the
> results have been fine.  Your changes to pkg and related files are nicely
> linear in the Mercurial repository.  Since this is new development, and the
> 4.4 release is just a few weeks away, it was correct to put this on the
> default (development) branch.  However, one of the changes was just
> alphabetizing the warnings_ids file.  This is a documentation change only
> and documentation changes can go on to stable since they don't affect
> function.  In fact, it is usually a good idea to fix the documentation as
> quickly as possible because it reduces the number of inbound help requests
> from confused users.
>
> Accordingly, I used 'hg graft' to pull the following changeset across to
> the stable branch.
>
> changeset:   24963:2e4ed4250e52
> user:        Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden>
> date:        Thu Mar 22 08:05:33 2018 +0100
> summary:     warning_ids.m: alphabetic order nearly-singular-matrix
>
> --Rik

Wow, thanks for the detailed feedback. I am happy to hear I managed to
do it correctly :D
I wasn't aware of the criteria regarding doc fixes (I should have
guessed from the commit messages).



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