[x265] Collaboration with topic branches

Rafaël Carré funman at videolan.org
Fri Sep 20 00:14:16 CEST 2013


Le 19/09/2013 20:55, SF Markus Elfring a écrit :
>> Some of that is for aesthetics, named branches live forever.
> 
> I find it easier to follow parallel software developments with topic branches.
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/NamedBranches
> 
> Would you like to close any branch in the future?
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PruningDeadBranches
> 
> 
>> Keeping track of what patches are destined to which branch would be a lot of pain,
>> not to mention the extra effort demanded of reviewers.
> 
> It depends on a try eventually to become used to alternative work flows.
> 
> 
>> So instead I would like to allow development forks to have unlimited push access
>> to their own repositories, but when they wish to merge their development with
>> our default branch they submit patches from their fork to our ML for review.
> 
> How do you think about the reuse of higher level tools?


> Are you interested in continuous integration techniques?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration#Advantages_and_disadvantages

I will set up a continuous buildbot for x265 soon (tm)


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