mq: patch naming shortcuts This adds some more options to the mq lookup routine. It allows you to use shortcuts in naming patches to push or pop. You can now use: 1) a full patch name 2) a number to indicate an offset in the series file 3) a unique substring of the patch name 4) patchname[-+]num to indicate an offset from a given patch. For case #3 substrings are allowed. qtip and qbase are aliases for the top and bottom of the applied patch queue, unless they are already in the series file as patch names.

#!/bin/sh

hg init

cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[encode]
*.gz = gunzip

[decode]
*.gz = gzip

EOF

echo "this is a test" | gzip > a.gz
hg add a.gz
hg ci -m "test" -d "1000000 0"
echo %% no changes
hg status
touch a.gz

echo %% no changes
hg status

echo %% uncompressed contents in repo
hg debugdata .hg/data/a.gz.d 0

echo %% uncompress our working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz

rm a.gz
hg co

echo %% uncompress our new working dir copy
gunzip < a.gz