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Good pratice for (early) user 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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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 avoid unstability |
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and conflict. |
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Rewrite you change 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 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 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. |