[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[Georg Brandl]

On 21.03.2011 20:09, skip at pobox.com wrote:
> 
>     Daniel> If every developer's intermediate commits make it into the main
>     Daniel> repository, it's hard to go back to an older revision to test
>     Daniel> something, because many of the older revisions will be broken in
>     Daniel> some way.
> 
> This is what I discovered with my trivial doc patch last week.  I was quite
> surprised to see all my local checkins turn up on the python-checkins
> mailing list.  Is there not some way to automatically collapse a series of
> local commits into one large commit when you do the push?

There is, but this is again "changing history", with all the possible
benefits and caveats that have been shown in this thread.

Georg