[Python-Dev] hg diff

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 17:28, Daniel Stutzbach <stutzbach at google.com> wrote:

> With a branch you can easily view the full patch, making a branch strictly
> more general.
>
> The advantage of having a branch comes when you want to review the second
> or third iteration of a proposed change.  With a branch, you can view the
> diff between the latest iteration and the branch point to view the change as
> a cohesive whole.  Or you can view the diff between the latest iteration and
> the last iteration you reviewed, to see if they have addressed your earlier
> comments or not.
>
> You can also just tweak a few things and push the changes back to them.
>  They can easily merge your changes with any changes they've made in the
> meantime (which is hard to do if you're pushing patch files around).
>

Actually, it isn't. As I said, Rietveld handles this the same way. The fact
that it got there by analyzing subsequent patches is really immaterial --
except in so far as it marks the intended changes more clearly.

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