[Scons-dev] HG questions

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Monday, July 14, 2014 08:46:58 AM Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> Alternatively, the hg folks suggest one working dir (local repo) per pull
> request.  But I think bookmarks are simpler.

Well, yeah.  You can consider a repository clone as a heavyweight branch of 
the parent repository.   That's pretty much how tla and bzr work.  

> 
> I don't think we've had a lot of pull requests yet that came from
> bookmarked repos though, so there may still be a learning curve (for me I
> mean).
> 
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 13, 2014 06:50:51 PM William Blevins wrote:
> > > What is the convention for working on multiple discrete items?
> > > 
> > > The DevelWiki says that I need permission to make branches, but without
> > > them I don't understand how I can make disjoint pull requests.
> > > 
> > > V/R,
> > > William
> > 
> > Normally, you want to use a bookmark.
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.scons.org/wiki/SconsMercurialWorkflows#Working_on_several_.22br
> > anches.22_at_once
> > 
> > Mercurial branches (i.e., something created by "hg branch <name>") are
> > really,
> > really weird.  That command (essentially) tags a group of changesets (not
> > even
> > related changesets) with a global attribute.
> > 
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