Mercurial and Agile

[bradford]

How about the pbranch?  Anyone using it to do something like this?  I
would really like to see such a workflow if so.

Sorry in advanced if this gets posted twice, but I tried the first
time using Nabble and realized it was not showing up.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Douglas Philips<dgou at mac.com> wrote:
> On or about 2009 Jul 1, at 7:52 PM, Stephen Rasku indited:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 16:21, Bret Naylor<bretnaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am a new user of mercurial.  I have searched all of the internet
>>> and have
>>> not had much luck in finding an answer to my question.
>>>
>>> Short Question:  Why is it so hard to cherry pick individual
>>> changesets and
>>> only move those across repositories?
>>
>> Take a look at the transplant extension.
>
> By Mercurial design, transplant cannot preserve the changeset hash, so
> Mercurial will not know that you have the same change in two different
> places in the tree, and as per (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/TransplantExtension
> ) that can cause merge problems.
>
> Rebase might be useful to you (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RebasePlan
> ) but if you really really want to have independent changesets you
> probably either want to use MQ or you want to keep branchy repos so
> that you don't end up with gratuitous temporal dependencies (which
> seems to be the source of your issue). My preference is branchy trees.
> Our work group (5 + me) typically has an in-progress tree with 2-3
> branches per person. It does require the discipline to -pay attention-
> to where you are in the changeset graph when you start to make
> changes. Even MQ requires you to pay attention.
>
> The deeper question is what is you confidence level of changes that
> you pluck out of the middle of a branch/repo? Until you do so, they
> could not have been tested in isolation since they depended on other
> (perhaps independent, perhaps not) changesets?
>
> Just my buck-two-fitty,
>        --Doug
>
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