[Scons-dev] Mercurial remote tracking

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 12:02 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk
> > wrote:
> > HgView shows remote tracking branches.
> 
> AFAIK mercurial doesn't have remote tracking branches. So what is the
> purpose of this letter? Inform about a bug in HgView or there is some
> deeper rationale behind that?

Well HgView is doing a great job of displaying all the branches
specified in .hg/hgrc. It may not be remote tracking branches Git-
style, but it sure beats not seeing the data.

> > Pity HgView is a Qt application
> > rather than a GTK+ one: it looks horrible on my screen, especially
> > compared to gitg.
> 
> Why no screens then?

?

> Also your assumption that tool defines the interface is wrong - it is
> designer who uses the tool who makes it beautiful.

GUI applications present the interface the GUI designer/implementor
provides, amended only by any theming available at execution time. Qt
tools do not obey GTK+3 theming unless the Qt application designer
builds that in, ­which very few do. HgView is pure Qt, with no GTK+3
capability.

> > I still prefer the Git transient branch model to the Mercurial
> > persistent branch model.
> 
> I also like rebasing Git branches, but this can kill history.
> Have you tried Evolve extension? And bookmarks?

Except for using Git as a Subversion client, I avoid rebasing at all
times. I haven't tried Evolve, what is it? No I haven't played with
bookmarks, SCons is the only Mercurial repository I have where such a
thing might even be worth trying. Personally I'd rather use Git (on
BitBucket) so as to get proper feature branches.

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Russel.
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