Mercurial and Agile

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How about the pbranch?  Anyone using it to do something like this?


Douglas Philips wrote:
> 
> On or about 2009 Jul 1, at 7:52 PM, Stephen Rasku indited:
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 16:21, Bret Naylor<bretnaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am a new user of mercurial.  I have searched all of the internet  
>>> and have
>>> not had much luck in finding an answer to my question.
>>>
>>> Short Question:  Why is it so hard to cherry pick individual  
>>> changesets and
>>> only move those across repositories?
>>
>> Take a look at the transplant extension.
> 
> By Mercurial design, transplant cannot preserve the changeset hash, so  
> Mercurial will not know that you have the same change in two different  
> places in the tree, and as per
> (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TransplantExtension 
> ) that can cause merge problems.
> 
> Rebase might be useful to you
> (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RebasePlan 
> ) but if you really really want to have independent changesets you  
> probably either want to use MQ or you want to keep branchy repos so  
> that you don't end up with gratuitous temporal dependencies (which  
> seems to be the source of your issue). My preference is branchy trees.  
> Our work group (5 + me) typically has an in-progress tree with 2-3  
> branches per person. It does require the discipline to -pay attention-  
> to where you are in the changeset graph when you start to make  
> changes. Even MQ requires you to pay attention.
> 
> The deeper question is what is you confidence level of changes that  
> you pluck out of the middle of a branch/repo? Until you do so, they  
> could not have been tested in isolation since they depended on other  
> (perhaps independent, perhaps not) changesets?
> 
> Just my buck-two-fitty,
> 	--Doug
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