Git workflow in Mercurial

Isaac Jurado diptongo at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 19:23:30 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Leslie P. Polzer
<sky at viridian-project.de> wrote:
>
>> git lets you do that easily, plus it lets you actually share these
>> topic branches between people. You can say "I want to pull changes from
>> Leslie's topic branch X into my local branch Y", which is very useful,
>> plus it lets me keep all these in a single tree in a single
>> directory. There might be a way to do that with hg (named branches), but
>> I think it isn't as smooth as the git way.
>
> How would we approach this best with hg? Named branches, local branches,
> pbranch?

If you didn't care about sharing, the bookmarks extensions should be a
nice starting.  Actually, you can share changesets but bookmarks would
not be updated correctly.  An uncertain wire protocol extension would
solve such problem.

Cheers.

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