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[Python-Dev] Using feature branches for local development

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Mar 13 16:17:18 CET 2011 
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

> The way to do this, IMHO, is just create a local clone and work on it. Then
> you can keep checking partial changes in without ever worrying about
> accidentally modifying the official repo. Especially if some of this work is
> experimental and bound to eventually be thrown away, I think it's a more
> flexible way to work than use MQ.

The problem is that you need to be working in a straight line.  If there are
several related but unordered changes involved, once you've committed to
a branch it's rather annoying to reorder things.  mq makes such reordering
easy in many cases.
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