Advice re. implementing Mercurial

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Thanks for the comments ... the problem is that I don't think all-or-nothing will work for us; if we released less frequently, perhaps, but as it is we release an updated version every[0] week[1]. So we really can't be in a position where we've pushed 15 bugfixes into Development and none of them go out until all 15 pass QA - the option has to be there for QA to approve 11 of the fixes and hold back the other 4 for a future release.  If we separated bugfixes into urgent / high / low priority branches I suppose that would potentially let us get around that - bugs already get classified on importance, of course - but I think we'd still have the same issue when a bug changed priority?


 [1] and unfortunately we probably can't get away from that - we sell software into small businesses and it's not uncommon for them to tell us things like "our supplier has changed their EDI file format without any warning! We need the new format integrated by next week!", or similar. In an ideal world we'd say "get a better supplier", but in practice, the answer has to be "well, that's chargeable work, but we'll get right on it and have a new version out shortly."

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You don't maintain separate repos or branches for different customers?