I'm using tortoisehg and am a little confused on a workflow for branching.

[Dilip M]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 9:41 AM, peter at peterkellner.net
<peter at peterkellner.net> wrote:

> We have 3 dev’s and we all check into the trunk and sync and merge with our
> bitbucket repository practically every commit.
>
> I want to have one of the dev’s start working on new stuff that would break
> everyone’s build if he were to check it into the trunk.

Ok, just do not 'push' until that one of the dev have tested locally.

> I want him to keep his stuff up to date with everyone else, but don’t want
> everyone else to see his stuff.

Ok. Keep only 'pulling'.

> Then eventually, when his stuff is stable, merge it back into the trunk.

Ok. when pulled and dev has fixed the code for succeful build, 'push' it.

> I think to everyone else it seems obvious how to do this, but I’m kind of
> lost on this.

Check if this helps.
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/

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DM