[Python-Dev] Using feature branches for local development

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 14:41, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The way to do this, IMHO, is just create a local clone and work on it.
> Then
> > you can keep checking partial changes in without ever worrying about
> > accidentally modifying the official repo. Especially if some of this work
> is
> > experimental and bound to eventually be thrown away, I think it's a more
> > flexible way to work than use MQ.
> >
> > One thing to keep in mind though is backup. I may be paranoid, but I just
> > can't do anything of importance on a local machine (especially a laptop)
> for
> > any prolonged period of time without occasional backups. Thankfully, a
> > Mercurial repo is about the best tool you have for backing things up -
> just
> > remote clone it to bitbucket, google code or some place of your own and
> > periodically push there.
>
> Since I have multiple machines to keep in sync, I'm actually thinking
> a server side sandbox clone is the way to go. That will solve my local
> issue as well (since the sandbox clone will be separate from the main
> clone).
>

This is precisely what I do, since I routinely commit to personal Mercurial
repos from 3 different machines.

Eli
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