Idiomatic working
John Arbash Meinel
john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Jul 8 14:04:05 BST 2009
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Russel Winder wrote:
> At the risk of starting a flame war :-)
>
> The idiomatic way of working with Bazaar seems to be:
>
> 1. Use a shared repository.
> 2. Have a mirror branch.
> 3. Use feature branches off the mirror branch.
> 4. Commit tested changes to the mirror, then to the branch it is a
> mirror of.
> 5. Delete feature branch.
>
> So the question of the day is: Should the mirror branch be bound or
> not?
>
Well, if it is, then step (4) is collapsed into a single commit.
For *me* I use a checkout of http://.../bzr.dev because I want to force
myself to *not* commit things there.
Anyway, I would recommend using a bound branch for the mirror branch for
a variety of reasons.
John
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