Advantages of MQ over vanilla hg

[Germán Poó Caamaño]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 10:23 +0000, Ben Hood wrote:
> [...]
> 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?

It is useful when you have local settings in a couple of files.

For instance, every time you sync your repo with another one, it 
pull standards configuration files (sometimes they doesn't exists and
you must create them) and you need to edit them in order to work
locally (says pointing a local webserver, database, etc.).  Using
MQ makes this work smoothly.

It's a very simple case, but quite useful.

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Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile