Please register bazaar-ng branches at launchpad

[Martin Pool]

On 25 Jan 2006, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Robey Pointer wrote:
> > 
> > On 24 Jan 2006, at 0:02, James Blackwell wrote:
> > 
> >> I think the time has come for us to get our branches registered in
> >> launchpad. That gives the launchpad guys a strawman to hack against as
> >> they work on visualization. To meet this end, I'd like to ask each of you
> >> to take some time to add some of your own branches at launchpad.net.
> > 
> > This brings up an interesting question about workflow.
> > 
> > I've found that with bzr, I have the urge to create a separate branch
> > for every feature I'm hacking on, since they're so cheap.  It may take a
> > 5-10 revisions before I'm done, and once it's merged into someone else's
> > branch, my overwhelming urge is to erase my branch... since the
> > revisions are all integrated into a "real" branch.
> > 
> > Does anyone else work this way?  Is it bad?  Are there potential
> > problems with it?

I think it's good.  The branch --basis thing helps, and as we improve
storage it will get even cheaper.

> > I posted my "bzr.robey" branch to launchpad, since it's kind of an
> > experiment for me to keep a branch around long-term.  But, for example,
> > the branch I recently made for "unit testing sftp without using ssh" has
> > been integrated elsewhere now and my fingers are already twitching,
> > ready to "rm -r" it. :)
> > 
> > robey
> 
> I've tended to move them into an OLD directory rather than deleting
> them. I do try to work on 'feature' branches. Deleting is legal in bzr
> once things have been merged. I just try to move them out of the way.

I also mv them into a MERGED directory, just in case I need them again.
Disk is cheap; certainly cheaper than deleting the wrong thing! :)

I hope that soon Launchpad will detect which branches have unmerged
changes.  So it can automatically detect things which are integrated,
and you can tell it if a branch is abandoned.

-- 
Martin
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