Can I commit individual hunks (hg record)?

Sören Kuklau October 8, 2011

In SourceTree's Preferences, the Mercurial pane mentions `record` among the extensions. While not enabled by default, I can tick it.

However, there doesn't appear to be any GUI-level support for making use of this: given a file with multiple changed hunks of which I only wish to commit a select few, I wouldn't know how to select those. The only per-hunk buttons available are "Discard Hunk" and "Discard Selected Lines", which I assume will revert those changes, rather than skip them for this commit.

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October 8, 2011

Hi Sören,

The 'record' extension must be appearing because it's included in your own .hgrc - SourceTree lets you enable additional (officially unsupported) extensions, for cases where the behaviour can be implicit - for example kbfiles.

You're right that there's no support for 'record' right now (essentially an equivalent to git staging). I have looked at it before, but right now you can only drive it using an interactive terminal, rather than via command line parameters, and driving console apps this way can be fragile from a non-terminal in my experience. That's why I haven't included it as an official option - this also applies to per-hunk shelving as well.

I hope some time in the future to be able to support this somehow, perhaps via my own extension which replicates record but with entirely command-line parameters.

Cheers

Steve

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October 8, 2011

Yeah, I had my hopes up when I found that one myself, hoping it meant 'command line record' - but it's a curses GUI instead - damn! :)

Sören Kuklau October 8, 2011

Thanks for your answer. Yes; I must have added the extension on my own long ago. I had assumed the extension would provide an API, rather than only its own command-line interface. I see now that there is precedent for creating an own, different-interface extension: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CrecordExtension.

Laurens Holst August 15, 2012

The record extension still works by modifying files on the file system, committing them and then restoring them to their old self (http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3591). But as I understand it nowadays Mercurial has “memctx” Python objects which allow you to stage and commit individual changes in-memory. That should be useful. I would love to have the hunk and/or line selection feature in SourceTree for Mercurial as well :).

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August 15, 2012

Interesting, thanks. Unfortunately that would require adding an active Python runtime to SourceTree which is quite heavyweight as a solution. I'm really hoping that Mercurial eventually adds a 'stage for commit' feature.

Laurens Holst January 7, 2013

Hi,

There’s some thread right now going where the TortoiseHg developers are looking into getting patch hunk selection to work again:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-January/047452.html

Particularly, here is a very small extension that seems to do much of the work:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-January/047552.html

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-January/047558.html

Perhaps this will be of some use to you?

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Laurens Holst January 7, 2013

Hi,

There’s some thread right now going where the TortoiseHg developers are looking into getting patch hunk selection to work again:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-January/047452.html

Particularly, here is a very small extension that seems to do much of the work:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2013-January/047552.html

Perhaps this will be of some use to you?

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