new user questions

[Andrew Thompson]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:10:34PM -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> Can I commit against any legal revision? I think the answer is yes, 
>>> but hg help checkout dumps an error with 0.5b.
>>
>> No, you can only commit against the tip. So checking out an old
>> version and committing effectively reverts. 
> 
> This answer surprised me. I would have thought that this would be the 
> way to (for example) make a fix against an earlier tagged release. Is 
> this a feature that just isn't there yet, or is there a different way to 
> do it?

I was just sitting here reading over the reply(for the third time) and 
wondering how you could make daily progress toward design goals and 
support existing users without constantly patching back to release X, 
fixing a bug, then patching back to current.

I suppose if you want to *support* a release, you should hg branch at 
release and let that be that. That seems to be how the kernel trees are 
handled. Branch at a release, and keep that seperate for bugfixes 
against that version.

I don't really understand how this is a good thing. Perhaps I should go 
back to Subversion...

-- 
Andrew Thompson
http://aktzero.com/
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