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docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Sushil khanchi <sushilkhanchi97@gmail.com>
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:09:44 +0530
changeset 4348 398c33b17d76
parent 1655 016ffd74026f
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evolve: make sure we don't stop after evolution of obsparent (issue5881) Before this patch, we were not handling the case when revset given by user also contain wdir parent which is obsolete. We were explicitly checking if wdir parent is obsolete, then update to its successor and return; without checking if we still have some revisions to be evolved. This patch make sure that after it update to the successor of obsolete parent it doesn't stop and continue to evolve other remaining revisions. Changes in tests/test-evolve-issue5881.t reflect the fixed behaviour.

.. 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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