On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Martin Geisler <m...@lazybytes.net> wrote:
> You're right, the UI is not so good. In particular, you cannot use 'hg > diff' to compare repositories. The rdiff extension does this, though: > > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/RdiffExtension In git, it is not just about diff, but about every command where you would want to compare branches. From a UI POV, this vastly outweighs the possible confusion caused by multi-branches / repo ala git. This means everything is done within the same concept of a branch (review, tasks, release branches, task branches, patches). > > Using stock Mercurial you can use 'hg incoming -p' to see the patches of > the incoming (missing) changesets, or you can pull in the changesets and > then look at them -- if you don't like them you can remove them again. Ok, I would have to try this to get a better idea as well. > > Or you could use named branches for the numpy-1.2.x and numpy-1.3.x > branches -- then everybody would see the branch names when they clone > the combined repository. Hm, ok. For release branches, named branches is the obvious choice - it is very unlikely that you would need to delete them. David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
