Re: Mercurial "r####" numbers are not stable, use commit ids

ST> I do mean named branches, something I can stash away for a week or ST> ten, and have the history there when I can come back to it. AFAIK, named branches were not part of Mercurial's original design. Rather, instead of creating a new branch, the expectation is that the user would clone the repo and work in the clone. ST> In particular, unlike a branch which has a well-defined history and ST> terminal state, it just didn't work for me to go away from a queue ST> for very long because it was hard to figure out where I was. Hmm. My work to get MH-E 8.0.3 to fit into the XEmacs package system happens in fits and starts, sometimes with multiple months of non-activity, and I haven't had problems picking up where I left off. I currently have 20 patches in MQ, including some hacks to deal with unrelated problems that I ran into while working on MH-E 8.0.3. Here are some aspects of my workflow that might be helpful: * I keep a Todo file that sketches out the remaining work for a project. (And for long-running projects, I often leave notes in it about work that has already been completed.) * Each patch includes the corresponding ChangeLog entry/entries. These usually require manual repair of the patch after synching with the upstream repo, but it's a trivial merge. * I try to have a naming system for the patches. For example, patches to other packages to deal with incompatibilities between MH-E 7 and MH-E 8 are all named <pkg>-mh-e-8. * I use -m when creating a new patch with qnew. If you forget to do that, or you want to change the log text, you can use -m with qrefresh. So if I want to remember what a particular patch does, I can either do "hg log -r <patch>" or I can look at the ChangeLog entries that are in the patch. I have not tried putting the patches into a repo so that they can be easily shared. ST> The other problem with Mercurial is that there are all these ST> extensions, but there's no way to find out what they are! "mq" is ST> mentioned in man hgrc (but nowhere in hg help), and guessing ST> "transplant" worked. But I wonder what else there might be out ST> there.... http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UsingExtensions cheers, mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta