[pony-build] Next steps for Khushboo and Fatima

[Augie Fackler]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:57 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:54:41PM -0600, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:55 AM, C. Titus Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> Second, one of you could implement branch support for HgClone.  Right
>>> now GitClone supports branches other than 'master', the default, while
>>> HgClone does not support branches other than 'default'.  I know beans
>>> about Mercurial, though, so this would be a reasonably independent
>>> research project ;).  To get started, here are some things you could
>>> do --
>>
>> In practice, using non-default branches in OSS is pretty rare. We're
>> using it for Mercurial itself, but only for tracking "stable" versus
>> "default," which is pretty minimal all told. When bookmarks become
>> pushable (no real firm timeline on that), they'll probably see much more
>> use.
>
> Hmm, didn't know that -- thanks!  I want to support them so that
> we can test experimental branches and default branches from the same
> repository.  It seems like a git-tish thing, maybe.

That's certainly more common in the git community, probably because hg
tends towards using patch queues for some reason. I'm *expecting*
pushable bookmarks to change that somewhat, but we'll see how that
works out when they're really around - it's very hard to predict what
users will actually adopt.

>
>>> I can hook you up with one of the Mercurial maintainers quite easily
>>> if you
>>> need that level of expertise, BTW.  (You shouldn't but it's always
>>> nice to
>>> have it on tap!)
>>
>> I'm around, I'm not a member of crew, but I've done quite a bit with
>> Mercurial internals and can easily get ahold of them if there's a
>> question I can't answer. Also, I'm in UTC-6, so I'm probably a bit
>> closer TZ-wise to you folks. Feel free to ask questions in #mercurial -
>> it's well staffed by experts from morning in Europe until fairly late in
>> the day in the US. mercurial{,-devel>@selenic.com are both good resources
>> as well, with more eyes but higher latency.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --titus
> --
> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
>