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docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Sushil khanchi <sushilkhanchi97@gmail.com>
Mon, 04 Mar 2019 03:16:51 +0530
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evolve: make sure user can recover from conflict (issue6053) we make sure while continuing interrupted evolve it reach to right code This patch fix the issue6053 which is about falling evolve into unrecoverable state and this is how it call fall into it: If after some rewrite operations we reach to a point where resparent for two content divergent csets is obsolete and we hit a conflict in relocation, so now if you run `hg evolve --continue` after resolving the conflict: code execution would check if wdir parent is obsolete and run solveobswdp() rather than going to continueevolve() part and there we will hit by a "abort: outstanding uncommitted merge" And same for `--abort` or `--stop` flags. Changes in tests 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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