Re: [Gwt-openlayers-devl] some hg advice

[Edwin C. <com...@gm...>]

Hi Dave,

Here's my 50ct:

Every time in Mercurial that you commit to the local cloned repository
a new branch is created of the central repository, I presume with it's
own head.

The remote SF repo is setup such that it cannot contain multiple
heads, so if you and I clone it, and I push something first then you
will have to merge that changes before your next push, because then
you are in a different branch (and you would need  different heads to
push different branches).

If the merged worked fine then it is the new canonical line of
development and can be pushed to the head of the central repository
without problems.

So the cycle is:
commit -> push (if no other developer pushed anything before you)
or
commit -> pull -> update -> merge -> push (if someone pushed other
stuff before you)

See also:
http://www.ivy.fr/mercurial/ref/v1.0/Mercurial-Usage-v1.0.pdf

One other nasty thing that I forget sometimes with Hg cmdline is to do
'hg addremove' to actually add and remove files in the local repo.

Greetings,
Edwin

On 2 February 2010 03:41, Dave Koberstein <da...@ko...> wrote:
> Hi Edwin,
>
> I've got a commit.  I made it with 'hg commit'  Then I tried 'hg push' but
> got an error about creating new remote heads.  So next I tried an 'hg pull'
> and 'hg update'.  The pull worked but the update suggested I merge.  So now
> I've got a successful merge but lots of changed files.  Looks like the
> recent commits.
>
> So what do I do?  Can I commit this merge?  Is that going to do something
> funky to the repo when I 'hg push'?  I'm tempted to do another checkout just
> to be sure I don't mess up anything.
>
> Davek
>
>