Hi,
I've been using mercurial for a while now and I'm getting pretty comfortable
with it.
The way I've been using it involves creating lots of named branches and
doing lots of merging. It's been working really well, but I keep coming
across people who don't think that is such a good thing to do, and I keep
hearing about lots of people using mq.
The thing is although I've found some pages discussing how to use mq, I
haven't really found all the information I'd like.
In particular, how 'exactly' does one use mq with TortoiseHg?
I think I may have figured out some of it.
Enable the mq extension. This will add new interface elements, such as a
QNew box which, when filled in (with a filename? is there a common syntax?),
will create a new mq patch of all of the checked items in the commit dialog.
Question: when is the qinit done? and what if you wanted the -c option?
Having an mq patch will enable the "Patch Queue" button, which will display
the patch queue. Unapplied patches will be grey?
You will see the applied patches as committed changesets in the repository
explorer (I've only tested so far w/ 1 patch, so I'm still fuzzy on what it
would look like w/ some patches applied and some not).
All changes you make will be rolled up with the changes already in the
current patch when you do a new commit (qrefresh).
When you're happy w/ all of the changes in the current patch you can convert
it to a real hg changeset by executing qfinish. The only place I found that
available was by right-clicking on the patch in the "Patch Queue" window. Is
there another way to do a qfinish?
All of that is fine for the simplest scenario, but what if you are working
on a patch for a week, and pulling changes daily some of which cause
conflicts with your changes?
I've read that you can use the rebase extension, but I'm not sure how I
might work that into my workflow, and if I would only use it if there
actually were conflicts?
Lastly how would you go about working on several 'features' at the same
time? Would you have several patches, one per feature, but all intended to
be applied to the default tip?
Are there any reference/tutorial pages that I should check out (that I may
not have seen)?
I realize this is asking for a lot, but using mq seems to be an important
part of using mercurial, and so I'd really like to understand it better.
Thanks,
Mike
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