[Python-Dev] Mercurial workflow question...

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:48:23 -0500,
"R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> a écrit :
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:21:24 -0500, Trent Nelson
> <trent at snakebite.org> wrote:
> >         - Use a completely separate clone to house all the
> > intermediate commits, then generate a diff once the final commit is
> > ready, then apply that diff to the main cpython repo, then push
> > that. This approach is fine, but it seems counter-intuitive to the
> >           whole concept of DVCS.
> 
> Perhaps.  But that's exactly what I did with the email package changes
> for 3.3.
> 
> You seem to have a tension between "all those dirty little commits"
> and "clean history" and the fact that a dvcs is designed to preserve
> all those commits...if you don't want those intermediate commits in
> the official repo, then why is a diff/patch a bad way to achieve
> that?  If you keep your pulls up to date in your feature repo, the
> diff/patch process is simple and smooth.

+1.  We definitely don't want tons of small incremental commits in the
official repo.  "One changeset == one issue" should be the ideal horizon
when committing changes.

Regards

Antoine.