2010/9/9 Andreas Tscharner <[email protected]>
> On 09.09.2010 01:54, Michael Jay Lippert wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Instead of MQ, you may try using unnamed branches (works well if you have
> TortoiseHG). If you don't have a tool that visualizes on which (unnamed)
> branch you are, you may try adding bookmarks on your unnamed branches.
> The combination bookmarks and unnamed branches allows you to work like you
> were on a named branch, but if you finally merge it, you can remove the
> bookmark of that branch (so there is no mess with the names). Since version
> 1.6.x, bookmarks are even pulled and pushed (unfortunately, they didn't seem
> to be cloned yet).
>
> [snip]
>
> 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?
>>
>
> With (unnamed) branches, this is of course no problem...
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
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> Andreas Tscharner [email protected] ICQ-No. 14356454
>
Thanks everyone for the various links and other advice, I'll see what I can
learn from it all.
Other than creating lots of names, what is the disadvantage of using named
branches over unnamed branches and bookmarks? Unnamed branches and bookmarks
seems like more work as you'd have to keep moving the bookmark (I haven't
used bookmarks before, so I'm unsure of how they actually work).
Also there is some advantage w/ named branches of being able to find all of
the changesets related to a particular feature because they are all on the
named branch (from a historical view when going back to find out what
changes were made to implement that feature).
pbranches was mentioned as an extension whose goal was a more "polished"
experience than mq. Do others agree and is it under active use and
development? Would current mq users ever want to switch to using pbranches?
I'm asking, because if true I'll try to keep an eye on how that development
is going.
Thanks again,
Mike
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