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docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:43:28 +0530
changeset 3642 319b1f0f4de2
parent 1655 016ffd74026f
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evolve: add a `--abort` flag for `hg evolve` command This patch adds a new flag `--abort` to `hg evolve` command which will abort the interrupted evolve going on undoes the changes created by the evolve command till now. The changes are bookmark movements, creation of evolved commits, obsolete the old commits in favor of evolved commits. In case when user changed things while the interrupted evolve, like did some actions which created a new commit on top of evolved commits, or changed phase of evolved commits to public, the evolve fails to abort as we should not strip out the new commit formed by user neither we can strip the public changeset. The abort fails and tell user to use `hg evolve --stop` instead. Right now bookmark movement is broken, and will be fixed in upcoming patches. Tests are added for the new flag.

.. Copyright 2011 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@ens-lyon.org>
..                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.

Evolve is not yet able to detect and solve every situation. And your mind is
not ready neither.

Branch as much as possible
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This is not MQ; you are not constrained to linear history.

Making a branch per independent branch will help you avoid unstability
and conflict.

Rewrite your changes only
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There is no descent conflict detection and handling right now.
Rewriting other people's changesets guarantees that you will get
conflicts. Communicate with your fellow developers before trying to
touch other people's work (which is a good practice in any case).

Using multiple branches will help you to achieve this goal.

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
about, prefer not altering them to risking a conflict by stabilizing them.


Do not get too confident
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This is an experimental extension and a complex concept. This is beautiful,
powerful and robust on paper, but the tool and your mind may not be prepared for
all situations yet.
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