[Scons-dev] Pull Request 448

[Bill Deegan]

Wiki page to fill in

https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/D%20Language%20Support

Not that multiple heads named via book marks is mercurial's answer to
transiant branches.
Not as simple as git, but not too painful once you get the hang of it.
(It's in the wiki page on mercurial workflows I sent)

-Bill

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-05-01 at 11:29 -0400, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Russel,
> >
> > There's a wiki page on mercurial workflows with info answering
> > exactly your
> > question.
> > https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/DeveloperGuide/MercurialWorkfl
> > ows#markdown-header-working-on-several-branches-at-once
>
> I'll follow that up. The lack of transient feature branches (as in Git)
> in Mercurial is beginning to p@@s me off.
>
> > Here's a page for you to fill out.
> > I'll figure out where to link to it from a bit later.
>
> I suspect I am missing the URL of the page to complete. Sorry I haven't
> done wikis for over a decade.
>
> > I'm tempted to push the wiki content into the website.
> > I'm not sure the wiki's getting indexed by google..
>
> I would argue that a wiki is a system for when the rest of the stuff is
> in a centralised VCS with no non-committer merging. Given the world of
> DVCS, wikis are essentially redundant: with DVCS anyone can propose a
> pull request to make a change. The downside is that wikis have a
> source/WYSIWYG editing, whereas pull requests are source only.
>
> If Google is not indexing the wiki we do have to perturb the system.
>
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