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docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@fb.com>
Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:19:14 +0000
changeset 1597 7876ed4fceb7
parent 1287 6f2c1574eda8
child 1655 016ffd74026f
permissions -rw-r--r--
evolve: write our own custom evolvestate file Since for ever, we were using 'graftstate' to record the node currently being evolve and allow 'hg evolve --continue' we now move to our on 'evolvestate' file. This remove and issue with 'hg summary' listing interrupted evolve as graft. This also open the way for storing more data into that file and allow proper --abort and --continue of the whole evolve operation (and not just the last one). The whole thing is very hacky but at least there is some progress. Thanks goes to Shusen Liu for initiating this work.

.. 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 pratice 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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