Bast practice to use MQ with multiple computers?

[Max (Weijun) Wang]

> You could give pbranch a try.
>  http://arrenbrecht.ch/mercurial/pbranch/

Thanks for your suggestion. I'm reading the pbranch doc now. This  
extension uses multi-stage branches and store everything inside the  
main repo. On the other hand, mq stores everything in the .hg/patches  
directory, which is the only thing I need to maintain while doing the  
sync.

In my case, it's not easy to directly access the office computer from  
home or the home computer from office, that's why I choose the Dropbox  
approach, and Dropbox works on file directories.

BTW, pbranch can export to mq. Can it be created from an mq?

Thanks
Max

On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:

> 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