[Scons-dev] Pull Request 448

[William Blevins]

Russel,

The bookmarks in HG are almost the same as branches in git. They are
used to track a HEAD reference at the bookmark.

V/R,
William

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> "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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Russel.
>>>
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