Maintaning local changes

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Martin Pool writes:

 > Robert had an interesting idea called "marks" or "masks" for doing
 > this -

Something like "guards" in Mercurial queues?  Note that in the below
"push" means "on the stack[sic] of patchs", not "to a remote repo".

hg qguard [-l] [-n] -- [PATCH] [+GUARD]... [-GUARD]...

set or print guards for a patch

    Guards control whether a patch can be pushed. A patch with no
    guards is always pushed. A patch with a positive guard ("+foo") is
    pushed only if the qselect command has activated it. A patch with
    a negative guard ("-foo") is never pushed if the qselect command
    has activated it.

    With no arguments, print the currently active guards.
    With arguments, set guards for the named patch.
    NOTE: Specifying negative guards now requires '--'.

    To set guards on another patch:
      hg qguard -- other.patch +2.6.17 -stable

options:

 -l --list  list all patches and guards
 -n --none  drop all guards

use "hg -v help qguard" to show global options