Interop with mq?

[Clark Wang]

I'm a big fan of hg's mq extension (https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/MqExtension )? Are there any limitations/pitfalls when using hg-git with mq? 

[Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen]

On 26 Jun 2024, at 18.09, Clark Wang <dear...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a big fan of hg's mq extension (https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/MqExtension )? Are there any limitations/pitfalls when using hg-git with mq?

In general, the pitfalls are the same as with the `mq` extension itself, and the justification for mutable history and the `evolve` and `topics` extensions. As it adds and removes commits all the time, you _may_ run into issues where a commit existed and was pushed/converted to Git, but is now gone.

Setting `mq.secret=yes` as suggested in the configuration is likely to help; in this case, you won't accidentally push the commits to Git — or Mercurial for that matter. _If_ you run into issues, a simple `hg git-cleanup` ought to resolve them, as it removes any mapping between Mercurial and Git that is now invalid, triggering a future reconversion.

But anyway, I'd suggest looking into `topics` and `evolve`; personally, I haven't used `mq` in several years — probably more than a decade 🙂

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