Taking the plunge...

[Steve Dyer]

Hi Stephen

Thanks for the response, I like the concept of seperate repos for each release. So I guess that at a point in time when you a ready to start building towards the next release you take a clone and then people just start pulling their changes over into that. 

Can you only push changes from one repo to another if they were originally cloned from one another?

Also when you talk about the web interface, is that just the standard ui with mercurial or are there other/better tools for managing mercurial with?

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: srasku at gmail.com <srasku at gmail.com>
To: Steve Dyer
Cc: Mercurial at selenic.com <Mercurial at selenic.com>
Sent: Sat Dec 03 22:32:43 2011
Subject: Re: Taking the plunge...

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:26, Steve Dyer <Steve.Dyer at homeserve.com> wrote:
>
> My question(s) really is, how would one go about working with a strategy
> like this?  Where this article refers to branching (feature branch, release
> branch etc) would they be clones in Mercurial land??

You could do it either way.  Mercurial supports named branches as well
as clones.  In my former company if there was a sub-team working on a
feature they would push/pull from each other in an unnamed branch
until the code was stable enough to push to the centralized
repository.

We used separate repositories on the central server for different
releases (2.11, 2.12, etc.).  They could have easily been named
branches but having cloned repositories will display each repo
separately in the main page for the web interface.

Having separate repositories means that it's more difficult to search
for revisions, though.  The web interface only allows you to search
one repository at a time.  We resolved this by having one monster
repository that all releases were merged back to.

...Stephen

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