docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
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Good pratice for (early) user of evolve
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Avoid instability
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The less instability 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 constrainted to linear history.
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Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoiding instability and conflict.
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Rewrite you change only
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There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now. rewriting other
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people changeset garantee that you will get conflict. Communicate with you
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fellow developer before trying to touch other people part. (which is a good
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pratice in any case)
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Using multiple branch will help you to achieve this goal.
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Prefer pushing unstability than touching other people changeset
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If you have children changeset from other people that you don't really care
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about, prefer not altering them that 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 complexe concept. This is beautiful,
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powerful and robust on paper. But the tool and your mind may not be prepared to
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all situation yet.