Advantages of MQ over vanilla hg

[Theodore Tso]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 09:13:05PM +0000, Ben Hood wrote:
> That's a good point. So basically you're saying that when you maintain
> an upstream tree and people are sending you 98% perfect patches, which
> you would just like to dot the i's and cross the t's on to get to 100%
> correct, using MQ is more flexible than vanilla hg?
> 
> Is this because with vanilla hg, you have to apply the patch to the
> maintained tree and then apply a 2nd corrective patch to remedy the
> slight imperfections in the original patch?

... and because I don't necessarily want to have that 2nd corrective
patch in the patch history.  A lot of it is wanting to keep the
revision history clean, from the point of view of easy bisection, and
making it easier for people to browse the history months or years
later.

						- Ted