Tomas Babej on 2015-07-02T15:32:33Z says:
If one modifies a (parent) recurrent task, the modification is automatically propagated to all the children, without prompting the user for confirmation.
I can see why this is usually desired, however, if one changes the due date, this will reschedule all the children task to the same date, which is almost certainly not desired.
$ habit all Brush before
Using alternate .taskrc file /home/tbabej/.habitrc
ID St UUID Age D Project R Due Description
51 P 06e06620 9h Health R 2015-07-03 Brush teeth before sleeping
27 P 503065eb 1d Health R 2015-07-02 Brush teeth before sleeping
26 P ecf6c57f 1d Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
25 R da4c7f0d 1d Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
4 tasks
There are local changes. Sync required.
$ habit 25 info
Using alternate .taskrc file /home/tbabej/.habitrc
Name Value
ID 25
Description Brush teeth before sleeping
Status Recurring
Project Health
Recurrence daily
Mask ---
Entered 2015-07-01 11:59:07 (1 day)
Due 2015-07-01 00:00:00
Last modified 2015-07-02 07:56:25 (9 hours)
Virtual tags MONTH OVERDUE PARENT UNBLOCKED WEEK YEAR YESTERDAY
UUID da4c7f0d-17a7-40b3-8eb8-8ef48fb44e47
Urgency 10.6
project 1 * 1 = 1
due 0.799 * 12 = 9.59
age 0.003 * 2 = 0.005
* -----
10.6
Date Modification
2015-07-01 11:59:17 Mask set to '--'.
2015-07-02 07:56:25 Mask changed from '--' to '---'.
$ habit 25 mod due:2015-07-01+22h
Modifying task 25 'Brush teeth before sleeping'.
Modifying recurring task ecf6c57f-feac-43a0-ad93-87348ecf01b0 'Brush teeth before sleeping'.
Modifying recurring task 503065eb-2a66-47b5-b6f5-4183f7e468ab 'Brush teeth before sleeping'.
Modifying recurring task 06e06620-2cd1-46f9-915f-fa9c3d5c5dd4 'Brush teeth before sleeping'.
Modified 4 tasks.
Using alternate .taskrc file /home/tbabej/.habitrc
Project 'Health' is 0% complete (3 of 3 tasks remaining).
$ habit all Brush before
Using alternate .taskrc file /home/tbabej/.habitrc
ID St UUID Age D Project R Due Description
51 P 06e06620 9h Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
27 P 503065eb 1d Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
26 P ecf6c57f 1d Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
25 R da4c7f0d 1d Health R 2015-07-01 Brush teeth before sleeping
4 tasks
There are local changes. Sync required.
The 'due' attribute should preserve the 'shift' intervals between the parent task and the pending child tasks.
Tomas Babej on 2015-07-02T15:32:33Z says:
If one modifies a (parent) recurrent task, the modification is automatically propagated to all the children, without prompting the user for confirmation.
I can see why this is usually desired, however, if one changes the due date, this will reschedule all the children task to the same date, which is almost certainly not desired.
The 'due' attribute should preserve the 'shift' intervals between the parent task and the pending child tasks.