[Scons-dev] Branching/cloning policy

[Chris BeHanna]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:39 , Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:


> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>> My worry with the single repository with default a mirror and a named

>> branch is that in order to process any pull requests you have to accept

>> the presence of the named branch in the mainline repository?

> 

> That is true.  Mercurial branches are permanent and contagious.  The

> branch a commit was created on is recorded as part of that commit, so

> anywhere that commit is merged to must contain that branch.  For

> feature branches, that could be seen as a good thing (an extra bit of

> useful metadata).  But it is worth remembering.


	This is why everyone and their brother discourages using feature branches.  Russel could instead have an anonymous branch with a bookmark, if he needs it, but I honestly think that just committing to the default branch in his own scons-d clone would be easiest for all concerned.

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Chris BeHanna
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