A new users thoughts on mercurial queues

Peter Arrenbrecht peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 01:39:58 CDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Bill Barry <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt Rosencrantz wrote:
> > In all of this I'm mainly interested in using queues to solve
> > entangled working directory problems and building up my own patches
> > while frequently re-basing against some shared repository somewhere.
> > I know there are other cases I haven't thought about.
>
> This is one of the major use-cases of mq, but perhaps you would be better
> suited to pbranch. Admittedly it is a bit more confusing up front (I think
> the examples could use a bit more work) but as soon as you start groking it,
> it suddenly all just makes sense and you wonder why you were screwing around
> with a versioned mq repo so hard.

Maybe it helps if you don't think of pbranch as a tool to manage
patches per se, but as a tool to manage the flow of merges between
related feature branches.
-parren


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