On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alex Rousskov <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with branches is that you have to commit changes (and, > later, fixes) _before_ you test. Sometimes, that is not a good idea > because you may want to simply _reject_ the patch if it fails the test > instead of committing/fixing it. I suspect it would be OK to abuse lp a > little and create a "garbage" branch not associated with any specific > long-term development but used "when I need to test a patch" instead.
You can certainly do that, and LP won't mind at all. Note though that a parameterised build in hudson can trivially build *any* branch off of LP, so you can equally push your experiment to ...$myexistingfeature-try-$thing-out. -Rob
