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docs/evolve-good-practice.rst
author Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:27:27 -0800
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typos: fix typos in several locations A user at Google attempted to fix our local copy because they had noticed a typo (accross instead of across), but this will just get overwritten on our next import. This commit fixes that case and a few others that my editor found. Most of the typos were in comments, but user-visible output is changed in a few cases: - accross -> across - splitted -> split - ambigious -> ambiguous - evolvestte -> evolvestate (this is in a ui.debug, so not often seen) There is another typo that I wanted to fix, but didn't: 'supercede' is spelled 'superseed' in a few locations. I believe this is only internal to the extension, instead of being user-visible, so while it could probably be fixed easily, I wasn't 100% sure it didn't end up in a file on disk or something and might cause problems, so I left it alone.

.. 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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