Mozilla: hg as a collaboration tool

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Tue Feb 12 11:45:24 CST 2008


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:01:02AM -0600, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> Now, it is possible to use hg just like you would use CVS.  Then you
> could just "hg diff".  But everyone will tell you not to do that.

My developers mostly do that. It's a fine thing to do for people who
don't want the extra capability and complexity.

If you are committing frequently, why would you want to look at a diff
of many changes mushed together? Instead you should be looking at
separate diffs for each non-merge commit.

-- greg



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