Questions tagged [mercurial]
Mercurial is a fast, open-source, distributed version control system.
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Why does Meta (Facebook) use mono-repo in their source control? [closed]
Meta maintains all their code in a single repository and initially used Git. Due to performance issues attributed to the repo's size, they consulted Git's team, who suggested switching to a multi-repo ...
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How can I get back to having only the master bookmark in Mercurial?
I am very confused in what I did with this mercurial repository ... I reversed a commit and after that I was never able to have a "unique" structure in my repository again. Can someone help me? > ...
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Source Control Release Management: Simultaneous Releases with Different Configurations
This is a best practices question for release management of an app. But this scenario is a bit different than what I've been able to find myself. Essentially my company maintains a fork of its own ...
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Best practice to revive and update old branch?
I'm a solo hobbyist developer with some code hosted on Bitbucket. I use TortoiseHg client-side for managing my repo. Back in 2013 I developed a feature on a branch but abandoned it before completion. ...
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Mercurial: tracking several repositories with same versioning
I am using mercurial on my project. Now I face following problem: I have two separate mercurial repositories with their own history. Now I need to have identical branches/bookmarks for both of them. ...
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Dividing up the work of a large code merge among multiple people?
This question is related to this one: Why not commit unresolved changes? When needing to merge a large code base with many conflicts, I would like to have a way to commit progress to be shared ...
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Is there any downside to commit messages containing the ticket number
I was wondering if it would be good practice for commit messages to contain the ticket number they were apart of. It would be like 2568 Fix heating issue Summary of the issue with a bunch ...
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"Party on my branch" workflow support in mercurial
When I'm on a git project, I have a workflow that goes something like this: Start a new feature (open a new branch) Write some code, commit some code, repeat Push the code to a remote, possibly with ...
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