Wednesday, February 27, 2008

queuetie pie

Mercurial Queues is where it's at. The tray icon stuff a single-patch queue, and updating it against trunk is (after svn up-ing my hg base): hg qpop, hg pull -u, hg qpush and if there are conflicts, fix 'em and do a qrefresh.

And 3 hours chasing down a problem that was EOL-oriented isn't fun. At least I'm intimately familiar with Preprocessor.py and know more about the build system than before. And I've invented at least 4 new ways of cursing.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, that EOL bug was a pain. I blame a poorly configured TortoiseSVN for getting the bad EOLs in the repo. My poorly configured TortoiseSVN...

Matthew Gertner said...

Yeah, beers for the whole team Mark!