Mercurial Digest, Vol 197, Issue 4

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

> Hi
>
> I sometimes have to edit quite a lot, but don't want to push it to the
> repository till it is finished. But then a quick fix for something else
> is need that I have to push. I see the following strategy
>
>     1. Which I am currently doing: I shelve the unfinished edits, edit
>        the fix, commit, push and then unshelve. The problem with this
>        strategy. Sometimes I would like to commit my unfinished changes
>        for better control so I thought of.
>
>     2. Change the phase of  the new commits of the unfinish edits to
>        secret. 
>
> But I never really worked with secret phases, so I ask
>
> What is the best strategy in such circumstances?

I either use the secret phase for such commits, and then update back to
the previous commit. If I expect the work to be larger, I just create a
new branch.

With the evolve extension you can change branch names of existing
commits easily.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken
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