Bast practice to use MQ with multiple computers?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Weijun Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I work on a big repo both at home and at work. All my code changes are
> saved in MQ patches before they got pushed back into a public repo. So,
> in order to continuously working on both side, all I have to do is to
> synchronize the patches.
>
> So on the office computer I setup a Dropbox account and put (symlink)
> the .hg/patches directory into the Dropbox folder. Back at home, I
> symlink the same directory in the Dropbox into my .hg directory. Now
> everything looks file because I would have an identical patches
> directory across the 2 computers.
>
> The bad thing is about the status file now. Since the 2 computers may
> have different qpush/qpop actions, they should have different status.
> Now that the status file is the same, and I see error messages like
> "abort: popping would remove a revision not managed by this patch queue".
>
> How do you solve this problem? Unfortunately Dropbox have no .hgignore
> like features.

You could give pbranch a try.

  http://arrenbrecht.ch/mercurial/pbranch/

-parren