On Aug 9, 2012, at 12:39 , Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: >> My worry with the single repository with default a mirror and a named >> branch is that in order to process any pull requests you have to accept >> the presence of the named branch in the mainline repository? > > That is true. Mercurial branches are permanent and contagious. The > branch a commit was created on is recorded as part of that commit, so > anywhere that commit is merged to must contain that branch. For > feature branches, that could be seen as a good thing (an extra bit of > useful metadata). But it is worth remembering. This is why everyone and their brother discourages using feature branches. Russel could instead have an anonymous branch with a bookmark, if he needs it, but I honestly think that just committing to the default branch in his own scons-d clone would be easiest for all concerned. -- Chris BeHanna [email protected] _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
