On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Richard Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Trevor Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>  > Stephen Hahn wrote:
>  >> * Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-24 22:53]:
>  >>> As a result of the above process, do you tend to keep a working copy
>  >>> for each set of changes you are doing?
>  >>
>  >>   I do--a separate child for each.  Danek uses Mercurial Queues (mq)
>  >>   sometimes, so he might have comments on how he handles multiple sets
>  >>   of changes.
>  >
>  > For what it's worth, I do the same as Stephen - I can understand that
>  > model well as I have to do it for CVS repo's I use with other
>  > projects.
>  >
>
>  I tend to do the "other" way Stephen described, a workspace per set of
>  changes with (sometimes numerous) intermediate commits, followed by a
>  recommit.
>
>  (we (SCM) really should borrow some of this thread as documentation,
>  if this will be a common question, our assumption had been people
>  would continue with basically the same workflow they had anyway).

I think that that would be true for internal Sun folks; but for
external contributors, like me, who haven't really used mercurial
before, finding a good work-flow will be helpful.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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