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next: add a --evolve option
When on a topological head, this option will trigger the evolution of a unstable
changeset that will result in a children of the current working copy parent.
This should ease stacked changesets workflow by allowing to stick to prev and
next to move through a stack of diff, evolving part of it on demand when needed.
In case of ambiguity, the command will ask the user to choose. We need a better
definition of "the stack of changesets I'm working on" to be able to seamlessly
handling branching.
| author | Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@fb.com> |
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| date | Wed, 24 Jun 2015 20:06:45 -0700 |
| parents | 6f2c1574eda8 |
| children | 016ffd74026f |
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.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org> .. Logilab SA <contact@logilab.fr> ----------------------------------------- Good practice for (early) users of evolve ----------------------------------------- Avoid unstability ----------------- The less unstability you have the less you need to resolve. Evolve is not yet able to detect and solve every situation. And your mind is not ready neither. Branch as much as possible -------------------------- This is not MQ; you are not constrained to linear history. Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoid unstability and conflict. Rewrite your changes only ------------------------- There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now. Rewriting other people's changesets guarantees that you will get conflicts. Communicate with your fellow developers before trying to touch other people's work (which is a good pratice in any case). Using multiple branches will help you to achieve this goal. Prefer pushing unstability to touching other people changesets -------------------------------------------------------------- If you have children changesets from other people that you don't really care about, prefer not altering them to risking a conflict by stabilizing them. Do not get too confident ------------------------ This is an experimental extension and a complex concept. This is beautiful, powerful and robust on paper, but the tool and your mind may not be prepared for all situations yet.