Advantages of MQ over vanilla hg

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Sun Mar 11 08:13:46 CDT 2007


* Ben Hood <0x6e6562 at gmail.com> [20070311 11:57]:
> I am correct in assuming that MQ is essentially useful when you have
> to manage a derived tree and still incorporate changes from the
> upstream tree over time?
> 
> Put it another way, if you didn't have an upstream tree (i.e. you are
> just maintaining your own isolated tree and whatever other people
> choose to do with that downstream is irrelevant), then you wouldn't
> bother with MQ, you would just use vanilla hg?

Correct, with your use case you probably don't get benefits from
using mq.

The only exception might be if you want to rewrite older changesets,
e.g. to remove private information before publishing your
repository. But you can defer the usage of mq until then.

Thomas

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