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

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Bill Barry <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Time will tell. :)

In any case I do find myself using pbranch and mq simultaneously:
pbranch for the longer lived stuff, mq as a beefed up shelf and patch
editor. So attic might have its role in there too.
-parren