HotSpot workflow (original) (raw)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 12:26:20 UTC 2015

I'm having some practical problems with the HotSpot workflow.

I usually have several patches on the fly at any time, but webrev and Mercurial don't really help. "hg push" and "hg merge" work on the whole repo, not just a changeset, so I've been manually saving changesets and re-merging them into the master tree, which is very error-prone and has led to some mistakes submitting changes.

Also, the need to submit a change as a single changeset makes it awkward to commit regularly as I work on a patch; I can't find any way to merge a set of changes into a single changeset and push that.

So, what do you do? Do you keep a source tree checked out for every webrev? Do you regularly commit as you work? Am I missing some tricks?

Thanks, Andrew.

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