[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[Éric Araujo]

Le 22/03/2011 00:46, Greg Ewing a écrit :
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> That seems to me the ideal: preserve all revision history for those
>> cases when some user will care about it, but *present* history cleanly
>> by default.
> 
> Seems to me the basic problem here is the way Mercurial
> presents you with a big pile of changesets and not much
> way of imposing any structure on them.
> 
> There should be a hierarchy of changesets, so you can
> look at the top level and get the big picture, while
> being able to drill down into the details when you
> need to.

That’s one way of saying “Mercurial should be Bazaar” <wink>.

Bazaar apparently has a notion of mainline whereas Mercurial believes
that all changesets are created equal.  The tools are different.

Regards