[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Mar 21 22:31:53 CET 2011

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:25:05 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Mar 21, 2011, at 09:53 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>I'd rather take a look at the final aggregate patch to see if it looks >correct, actually. It's easy to have incremental changes which look >good but lead to a questionable patch in the end. Better to review it >in aggregate, IMO. I think it would be good to have the option to do either.

Technically, nothing prevents anyone from committing many small changesets representing incomplete development. It's just that it pollutes history, similarly as it polluted history with SVN.

Regards

Antoine.

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