ANN: pbranch extension (alternative to mq, like topgit and bzr loom)

Peter Arrenbrecht peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 00:33:28 CST 2008


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 12 Dezember 2008 07:16:11 schrieb Peter Arrenbrecht:
>> No, they don't. They build on them. You'll end up with one branch per
>> patch you're maintaining. They organize the flow of merges between
>> those branches.
>
> Are these branches really local, if you're working on them as a team?
>
> Or could it rather be explained as a kind of throwaway but shared branching?

Exactly. Shared when people collaborate on development of the patches,
but throwaway in that the branches should not make it into the main
repo, only the final patches.

> When I work on pbranches and people pull from me, do they get the branches?

Yes. See the collaboration example in the tutorial.
-parren


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