[ANNOUNCE] new extension: localbranch

Bela Babik teki321 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 09:40:34 CDT 2007


> a branch is part of the history (the branch name is recorded in the
> changelog) and so they are immutable. localbranches are really like
> clones inside a repo, this is usually what people expect from branches
> (not creating a new working copy when you want to work on something
> else).

I would use separate clones for -devel and -stable.

> I would say that a branch (aka named branch) is for long lived
> branches that have a meaning (like -devel / -stable), whereas
> localbranch are for short lived development for people who don't like
> to clone.

Not necessarily. You can use named branches and then merge the final
version with the "revert  trick" in one changeset and push that
particular changeset.


teki


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