Re: vcs_info patch-format/applied-string awareness?

[Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>]

On 2020-06-19 12:46, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:07 +0000:
>> Manuel Jacob wrote on Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:06 +0200:
>> > I’m concerned that most people won’t use the feature because they’re
>> > not aware that it exists.
>> 
>> Fair point.  Let's first see if we can enable the feature without user
>> interaction at all.  If that doesn't pan out, then we can see about
>> addressing the lack of awareness.
> 
> By the way, I think this point applies to the "show patch series"
> functionality too.  That functionality is used by several vcs backends
> (e.g., quilt, hg mq, git rebase), but is not enabled by default and
> I suspect many people don't know it exists.
> 
> I'm referring to this:
> 
> [[[
> $ cd Functions/VCS_Info/
> $ rm -rf vcs-test/
> $ zsh ./test-repo-git-rebase-apply
> ⋮
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in iota
> ⋮
> zsh: exit 1     zsh ./test-repo-git-rebase-apply
> $ (cd vcs-test/ && zsh)
> myref/rebase/+ f973ee0a1fe5
> [5+2=7] ea03c123a587 r7: Append a line
> %
> ]]]
> 
> See the "[5+2=7] ea03c123a587 r7: Append a line" line.  (That line was
> generated by setting zstyles to values such as those given in comments
> at the top of ./test-repo-git-rebase-apply, plus some fine-tuning by
> zshrc hooks.)
> 
> So, should we have patch series information displayed by default?  The
> information about applied patches is parsed by default, but not shown
> by default because the %m expando isn't in the default 
> formats/actionformats
> values.
> 
> Or alternatively, should we increase awareness of it?

MQ is deprecated and discouraged and any support for it doesn’t need any 
more awareness. Personally, I neither want to spend time thinking about 
how to improve MQ support nor answer any questions from MQ users that 
keep using it because zsh support improved. ;)

> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> P.S.  The hg backend doesn't seem to support equivalent functionality
> for the rebase/histedit commands; see the VCS_INFO_set-patch-format 
> call.
> hg mq support is present but not enabled by default.