ann: attic extension (alpha quality), request for help

[Bill Barry]

Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> THg 0.6 is out which might help.
>   
And attic is updated to work with it. I will be trying out pbranch this 
weekend.
> pbranch was not primarily designed for this quick juggling of patches.
> Rather, it was designed for longer lived, collaboratively developed
> patches.
>
> That said, I think pbranch could be used for the purpose, but with some warts:
>
> The transition from patch to finished commit is more cumbersome with
> pbranch at the moment. The reason being that a pbranch repo always
> separate from the main repo. You never push from the pbranch repo to
> main (by pushing only a given branch we might relax this).
>
> Finished and deleted patches don't just go away. They linger on as
> named Hg branches.
>
> On the other hand, it handles complex patch DAGs with octopus merges
> at the patch level (a patch depending on multiple other patches).
>
> -parren (pbranch author)
>   
So it sounds like all 3 have a niche then?