[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 21, 2011, at 08:58 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

>On 21.03.2011 20:09, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>> 
>>     Daniel> If every developer's intermediate commits make it into the main
>>     Daniel> repository, it's hard to go back to an older revision to test
>>     Daniel> something, because many of the older revisions will be broken in
>>     Daniel> some way.
>> 
>> This is what I discovered with my trivial doc patch last week.  I was quite
>> surprised to see all my local checkins turn up on the python-checkins
>> mailing list.  Is there not some way to automatically collapse a series of
>> local commits into one large commit when you do the push?
>
>There is, but this is again "changing history", with all the possible
>benefits and caveats that have been shown in this thread.

I think Ben Finney hit the nail on the head here.

-Barry
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