[Scons-dev] Pull Request 448

[Bill Deegan]

"Not that" should be "Note that"

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> 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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