Comments on: mercurial tasks extension

By: Bob W

Bob W — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:21:26 +0000

So…tasks, then, are basically like bookmarks that record every changeset that has been a part of them (instead of only the tip), and that provide you with an extra filter in front of the multiple-head-catch, which (depending on your workflow) may be more convenient than always pushing with -r?

I’m going to have to look into this; it sounds really interesting. Two things that have me curious are what happens if you DO push with -r, and what happens if you try to rebase a task.

By: alu

alu — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:57:15 +0000

Hi Ryan,
For me, this highlights the differences:

“For me bookmarks lack two features: tracking all changesets belonging to a particular task, and being able to push completed tasks easily while ensuring that incomplete tasks are not pushed.”

Dilip, yes mq can do a lot of the same things (and a lot more!), but I wanted something that worked by adding some metadata on a regular hg repo instead of a stack of patches.

-Alex

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:14:41 +0000

Let me expand my question: this looks very similar to Mercurial’s bookmarks extension. Can you highlight the differences?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:00:14 +0000

So the main difference from the bookmarks extension is that this protects you from pushing incomplete tasks?

By: Dilip

Dilip — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:39:04 +0000

Just explored mq! the same stuff can be done using it.if we think each task as a patch!

By: Dilip

Dilip — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:40:47 +0000

A great extension. But won;t work on windows

D:\repos\hgoff>hg task
*** failed to import extension tasks from “D:\repos\hgoff\.hg\tasks.py”: [Errno 22] Invali
d argument
hg: unknown command ‘task’
Mercurial Distributed SCM

By: Dilip

Dilip — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:06:17 +0000

Great! This will prevent me pushing all incomplete tasks!

By: Sander Smits

Sander Smits — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:21:22 +0000

This is exactly what kept me from switching from Git to Mercurial! Git’s cheap local branches are the killer feature for me and your tasks extension seems to provide the same functionality. Great! I sure hope this ends up in the core.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:20:19 +0000

Thanks for the writeup! I had read your previous post about bookmarks and found it handy. I like bookmarks, but what I wanted was more like git branches, which is what the tasks seem to do. This matches my personal workflow almost exactly. Thanks again!

By: João Marcus

João Marcus — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:50:24 +0000

I use hg mainly to have a personal VCS on top of a main CVS repo. I use the one branch per feature/bugfix approach, and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Bookmarks were close, but this extension was a perfect match for my needs. Thanks a lot!