pbranch anyone?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Bill Barry <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
> Marijn Vriens wrote:
>>
>> I've been using it in the two repos setup, one development repo where I
>> "sculpt" the different patches for the stable repo. Each patch gets a branch
>> in development repo. Once the patch is finished, I pexport the branch for
>> importing it in the stable repo.
>
> Do you ever drop a development repo and start over with a fresh clone of
> stable? I ask because while I was toying with pbranch, it seemed like the
> best way to do stuff was to make a clone for a set of pbranches, once those
> branches were accepted back into mainline (in your case "stable") I would
> stop starting new branches in that repo and just store the repo away for
> historical purposes. This way my dev repo wouldn't be clogged up with all my
> past mistakes, only with the ones for the patchset I am currently working
> on.

This is how I use it, too.
-parren