[oe] A question of workflow

[Koen Kooi]

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Matthew Palmer schreef:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 07:19:29PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:

>> It does mean you shouldn't be committing changes locally via monotone.
>> If you do this you will have to pull and then merge every time. That
>> isn't a problem in itself but if you do get direct commit access, we
>> will not be happy adding hundreds of extra merges to the main
>> repository.
> 
> WTF?  Why are you using a distributed revision control system, if I'm not
> supposed to be committing locally?  If everything I do is supposed to be
> bundled up into a patch and sent to the bugzilla, how am I meant to maintain
> my own tree of fixes while I wait for them all to be applied to dev?  Quilt? 
> That might make sense if I'm stuck interacting with SVN, but with a DRCS in
> the mix I expect *it* to be able to take on that role.

Do what virtually every DSCM does to support that: make a branch
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