[Scons-dev] Working branches

[Dirk Bächle]

On 04.10.2013 20:19, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> [...]

> Feature branches seem to be the worst part of hg IMHO.  Dirk, your 

> workflow seems OK, although a bit indirect; you could run into 

> problems once your changes are accepted, pulling back in. Russel, 

> would Dirk's setup work for you?  Alternatively if we used a separate 

> repo for python3 work would that be better? (Seems weird to me, even 

> though it seems to be common practice in mercurial).


A separate repo is overkill in my opinion. My idea for a branching 
strategy would then be, to finish the python3 port as fast as possible. 
Once it's merged back to default, Russel can pull and merge the changes 
to his D tooling branch and then continue with development as before.

Dirk