[petsc-dev] close ts-fixes branch?

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

> On 25 March 2010 01:14, Kai Germaschewski <kai.germaschewski at unh.edu> wrote:
> > Fine with me (I'm the one who introduced it originally).
> >
> > My off-topic 2 cents: I hate reply-to headers.
> >
> 
> BTW, I think this is an example of bad usage of mercurial branches...
> You should use a separate clone for these kind of tasks. Mercurial
> branches would make more sense for release versus development,
> although even PETSc does not uses this model. IMHO, creating a branch,
> push some fixes, merge back to default, and close branch is just
> repository pollution.

yes - we use clones as branch model [even for releases] - and should
avoid in-repo branches..

Satish