[Scons-dev] Mercurial remote tracking

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:
> 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:
>> > 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?

Post screenshots if you want feedback on visual features.

>> 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.

Qt allows to build beautiful interfaces. Don't you agree with that?

>> > 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.

You avoid rebasing in Git? Why?

> I haven't tried Evolve, what is it?

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

> No I haven't played with
> bookmarks, SCons is the only Mercurial repository I have where such a
> thing might even be worth trying.

Try it. But if you don't rebase...

> Personally I'd rather use Git (on
> BitBucket) so as to get proper feature branches.

what's the point of "rather use Git" if you don't rebase? Do you use
GitHub - is that the reason?

-- 
anatoly t.