1117632 - Implement some command that mimics the behavior of the qbackout extension in regards to the backout commit message.

Status: NEW

(Developer Services :: Mercurial: firefoxtree, defect)

Description

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

The qbackout extension is really nice to use since it includes the bug numbers from the backed out revisions in the new backout commit message automatically.

I would really like to be able to use something like it that isn't based on mq, but still gives me a really nice backout commit message by default. 

Ideally, this command would be able to also use backout's --edit option to further edit the backout commit message (eg, to provide the reason for the backout).

Something like this:
hg notqbackout -e -r dc7317efb518

Which would then open the editor with the pre-filled commit message of "Backed out changeset dc7317efb518 (bug 1113065)"

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I'm not too familiar with qbackout. But it sounds like you want an extension to `hg backout` that does what qbackout does. e.g. the backout commit message would be pre-formatted with something reasonable from the parsed commit messages of the commits being backed out.

I should be able to whip up something pretty easily. Maybe I'll do it from the plane today.

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> I'm not too familiar with qbackout. But it sounds like you want an extension
> to `hg backout` that does what qbackout does. e.g. the backout commit
> message would be pre-formatted with something reasonable from the parsed
> commit messages of the commits being backed out.
> 
> I should be able to whip up something pretty easily. Maybe I'll do it from
> the plane today.

Yep. Here's qbackout's source: https://bitbucket.org/sfink/qbackout/src/1a7995136c68ab31187eccb2828b87c988ab1954/__init__.py?at=default with the bug scraping regex at line 25.

Comment 3

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

This bug is for firefoxtree so I filed a new bug for my implementation: bug 1121211.