docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Pulkit Goyal <7895pulkit@gmail.com>
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:14:39 +0530
changeset 3549 802441114400
parent 1655 016ffd74026f
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next: prompt user to choose child in ambiguity in `hg next --evolve` This patch makes `hg next --evolve` prompt user to choose a child to evolve and update when multiple of them exists. This is improvement over previous behavior where we used to error out saying ambiguous next unstable changeset and told user to manually use `hg evolve -r rev`. While writing this patch, I am personally very happy to have this feature as I have encountered this stage many times and I wanted `next --evolve` to take care of that. It uses the revselectionprompt thing added in earlier patches.

.. 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.