"Patch Management" descriptions in conflict

[BOGGESS Rod CORE]

From: srasku at gmail.com [mailto:srasku at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Rasku
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:33 PM
To: BOGGESS Rod CORE
Cc: mercurial at selenic.com
Subject: Re: "Patch Management" descriptions in conflict

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:37 AM, BOGGESS Rod CORE <Rod.Boggess at tenova.com<mailto:Rod.Boggess at tenova.com>> wrote:
…

By Bryan's own admission, the relevance of MQ in the book is overrated
with respect to the current state of things….
GGhh
I’m wondering what that means, “relevance…overrated…”. I do agree that MQ, being a more advanced use-case, should be addressed in an Appendix, although it would be a tough call, and I think even the two paragraphs could be expanded to do it justice. Not enough information exists (for my tastes) on sub-repos, which should probably have equal footing to MQ.
But this statement leaves me with the impression that few are using MQ, and I wonder if there’s any actual numbers on its popularity amongst users.
I've used MQ in the patch and I continue to do so.  I like the fact that I can go back an modify patches and that I can fold multiple patches into a single commit when I'm ready.
...Stephen

 Well, if you and I are the only two users of MQ on this list, and this group is representative, I guess I have my answer. I admit, though, that I’m surprised.

I do field deployment of customized automation software. It’s an excellent tool for managing temporary software (especially the guards), it’s great for testing out software modifications or patches prior to committing, and we’ve even used it to maintain a Visual Studio 2005 application using Visual Studio 2008.  (Upgrade to 2008, and save that as a patch. Make your changes, save those as a patch. Pop both off, swap order, and finish the changes you made. Then when a 2005 user pulls the changes down, he doesn’t see the upgrade changes, since they remain in the patch you didn’t finish.)





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