[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:21:37 -0700, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> why do you use hg diff and patch above rather than hg export and hg import?
> 
> (not implying one is better than the other, learning here...)

We're all learning, even the ones who have used Mercurial before (which
isn't me).

I have been avoiding hg import because my understanding is that it
defaults to commit, and I don't see that it has any advantage over patch
itself.  If export preserves the commit message (I haven't tried export,
didn't even know it existed), then that could indeed be a better way to
go for this particular scenario.  I'll have to check that out.

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