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

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Mon Jan 24 14:11:49 CST 2011


On Jan 22, 2011, at 7:11 AM, peter at peterkellner.net wrote:

> Actually, I do want everyone else to be able to see the dev's working code but not have it affect the main trunk until the dev decides to merge it back into the main trunk.

Other developers can always pull directly from that person's feature branch (pull without updating), or you can give them a separate repo on the host. Or use a shared bookmark to track that feature's development.

This is an absolutely standard way of using a DVCS.

pacem in terris / mir / shanti / salaam / heiwa
Kevin R. Bullock



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