Add to this the merry dance you have to go through to ammend commit messages in Mercurial and things get even worse. (Oh how I’d love for hg to implement something similar to git’s $ git commit –amend )

Hence, a Pre-transaction-commit hook for hg that will ask me if I’m sure I want to commit without an issue number. If want to commit anyway, it’s just two extra keystrokes, and saves a whole lot of rollback/apply nonsense.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
 
cmd = subprocess.Popen(['hg', 'log', '-vr', os.environ['HG_NODE']],
                       stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
msg = cmd.split('description:')[1]
issue_regexes = [
    # Trac
    r'#\d+',
    # Redmine
    r'fixes #\d+',
    r'refs #\d+',
    ]
if not filter(lambda x: re.search(x, msg), issue_regexes):
    print "No issue ref or fix... message is:"
    print msg
    sys.stdout.write("Continue? [y/n] ")
    resp = raw_input().lower()
    if resp == 'n':
        sys.exit(9)

Then add the following to your project’s .hg/hgrc:

[hooks]
pretxncommit = path/to/your/pretxncommit.py

Saving you endless embarrassment:

davidmiller@pascal:~/src/buggy_repo$ hg commit -m "A context-less void"
No issue ref or fix... message is:
 
A context-less void
 
 
 
Continue? [y/n] n
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status 9

Love regards etc

This being Emacs though, the natural solution to any irritation is to program your way out of it. M-x regexp-revert let’s you enter a regexp, and then reverts any buffer with a file location matching that regexp to the file’s current state on disk.

(defun regexp-revert (regexp)
  "Revert all buffers whose path matches regexp"
  (interactive "sPath Regexp: ")
  (dolist (buffer (buffer-list))
    (if (string-match-p regexp (or (buffer-file-name buffer) ""))
        (progn
          (set-buffer buffer)
          (revert-buffer nil t)
          (message "Reverting %s" (buffer-file-name buffer))))))

Love regards etc

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Karl Popper – The Open Society and its Enemies

It appears to me madness to base all our political efforts upon the faint hope that we shall be successful in obtaining excellent, or even competent rulers.

The Open Society & It’s Enemies – Popper

At the present time that is all.

Love regards etc

<fsbot> I think gnus is [0] an Emacs newsreader (and mailreader), see #gnus,

<http://gnus.org/>, <http://emacswiki.org/wiki/CategoryGnus>

<fsbot> [1] proof that we are a wicked people who deserve to be punished,

<fsbot> [2] the punishment

<rgr> ,forget gnus 1

<fsbot>Removed entry 1 of gnus

<rgr> ,gnus

<fsbot> hmm, gnus is [0] an Emacs newsreader (and mailreader), see #gnus,

<http://gnus.org/>, <http://emacswiki.org/wiki/CategoryGnus>

<fsbot> [1] the punishment

<rgr> ,forget gnus 1

<fsbot> Removed entry 1 of gnus

Shame.

I took the flag down for a trial or tribulation depending on which side of the sweep you were on & then stroked the art for a bit. Thankfully it wasn’t one of those galleries where that sort of thing is considered inadvisable. In-between the trading of inanities & brief asides taken to raise eyebrows at theatre ushers we stumbled through half-held debates, punctuated by prolonged gazes & swift pacing to the other side of the room.

You can construct a valid position along the following lines: That there is an untrue beauty in exegesis as it serves to extinguish the last lingering certainties, especially when it becomes the mortar for superstructured waterfalls cascading down walls. Whether you’d want to & how relevant this might be is up to you.

Someone once said that isms are there to distract people from opacity. I am reminded of this only now though. At the time all manner of crawling figures were holding on desperately as their idols collapsed onto turtles all the way down. Extermination is most often an active endeavour, but sometimes it’s passivity with a wink.

Let’s not get too carried away here though. Destruction leads to denial when it’s implied, and that’s no bad thing. Once upon a tomorrow we took that for granted. Under the circumstances a curt reminder was somewhat appropriate. The feeling seemed mutual. Nothing moved however long you stared at it, which only lent the violence an air of susceptibility.

Occasionally, when confronted by endless white on black, I have the tendency to search for allegory in the spaces. This however, wasn’t one of those parties. Narrative is one of those cruel beasts unbecoming of hats, it likes the sense of possibility found in permissiveness. This is just as true in pictures as it is in politics.

Doubly so when the prey is peering round corners.

“You forget yourself good sir”. Quite so.

This is the point at which we insert a good last joke – a summatorial sartorial editorial to imply closure. Given the preceding, this would be an inappropriate use of an opportunity. Declined.

The Empire Never Ended exists for a while more at the Tricycle. It was created by Mr Brindley. We enjoyed it.

Love regards etc.

P.S. Worth a read: Exegesis – (New) Working Parameters

The religious is not neurotic at all. He is religious. But he looks like a neurotic, because he too combines things around what really is the desire of the Other. The only difference is that, because this is an Other that does not exist, because it is God, we need proof. So we pretend the Other is asking for something. Victims, for example. That is why this gradually becomes confused with the attitude of the neurotic, and especially the obsessional neurotic. It looks terribly like all the techniques used in victimary ceremonies

You will say that I am now advancing something that is no more transparent for that. But I’m not looking for transparency, I am trying, first of all, to stick to what we find in our experience, and if it is not transparent, well that’s too bad.

From My Teaching, Jacques Lacan

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( The countdown had stalled at ‘T’ minus )
( 69 seconds when Desiree, the first )
( female ape to go up in space, winked at )
( me slyly and pouted her thick, rubbery )
( lips unmistakably — the first of many )
( such advances during what would prove )
( to be the longest, and most memorable, )
( space voyage of my career. )
( )
( — Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton )
( bad fiction contest. )
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