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.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
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..                Logilab SA        <contact@logilab.fr>
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Good practice for (early) users of evolve
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Avoid unstability
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The less unstability you have the less you need to resolve.
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Evolve is not yet able to detect and solve every situation. And your mind is
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not ready neither.
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Branch as much as possible
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This is not MQ; you are not constrained to linear history.
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Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoid unstability
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and conflict.
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Rewrite your changes only
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There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now.
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Rewriting other people's changesets guarantees that you will get
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conflicts. Communicate with your fellow developers before trying to
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touch other people's work (which is a good practice in any case).
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Using multiple branches will help you to achieve this goal.
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Prefer pushing unstability to touching other people changesets
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If you have children changesets from other people that you don't really care
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about, prefer not altering them to risking a conflict by stabilizing them.
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Do not get too confident
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This is an experimental extension and a complex concept. This is beautiful,
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powerful and robust on paper, but the tool and your mind may not be prepared for
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all situations yet.