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

Daniel Stutzbach stutzbach at google.com
Tue Mar 22 18:17:45 CET 2011

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

Speaking for myself, I rewrite my git history because it is not useful to me as is. Almost all of my git commits have a informational half-life measured in hours once they're off tip, because I commit with every save (I have an after-save-hook to do this), which I do "early and often". Effectively, I use git as an extension to XEmacs's undo/redo mechanism.

I, too, commit using git with every save (which I do early and often). It's saved my butt more than once. Awhile ago I came across the following nice tool that puts these intermediate commits in a side branch (that can later be abandoned) so they never show up in the main history:

https://github.com/bartman/git-wip

I imagine something similar could be written for hg.

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