[oe] A question of workflow

[Erik Hovland]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > 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

Strange. Git nor mercucial require you to branch.

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