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New Version - Branch or New Repo

Hey all, I'm wondering what is the best way to work with a new version. Should I create a new repository for the version, or should it just be a branch off the original repositor …
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Kiln Branch and Merge How-To

How do I create a branch? How do I merge that with trunk?
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Should devel repo be a branch of stable or a separate repo?

This post clearly explains the best practice of having stable and devel repositories. It's not clear, however, if the devel repo should be a branch of stable or a separate repo. …
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Local Branch Repository to Kiln Branch Repository

I've been doing some research on how best to use Kiln/hg on my team. I'm seeing many benefits and relatively few drawbacks. One of the benefits I'm presenting is the ability to ma …
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What are best practices for managing pushing and pulling a branch repo to/from its parent?

I work mostly in a branch repository. What are the basic procedures I should be doing to make sure things don't get out of sync? e.g. daily pull from parent with what command? any …
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Mercurial Branches and Kiln’s Forks

When using the "Fork" functionality in Kiln, the new repository appears beneath the one being forked, but is listed as a "Branch Repository", yet when using Mercurial branches in t …
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How to keep feature branches review-able while merging forward?

I find the "This file's diff is shown in 2 parts, due to intervening changesets not included in the review." situation to drastically reduce the utility of Kiln code reviews. Is t …
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Why are branched repositories preferred over named branches in Mercurial?

I am new to mercurial and I am trying to grok the whole branched repository vs. named branch issue. It seems that the mercurial dev team and most of the experienced users have s …
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git/hg flow branching model support for client tools

Hi! I would like to request support for the "git-flow" branching model. (http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/). It's basically a way to create branches from th …
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Best practice to maintain different build configs for the same code

Background: This pertains specifically to building DLLs to extend AutoCAD. Every 3 years they change the binary compatibility, generally also changing the version of the .NET frame …
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Allow setting repo group and/or project when branching to central repo

When I branch a repo in the Kiln web interface I can select "Branch" or "Central" repo in the advanced options. It would be nice to set the target group and target project in this …
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Suggested best practice website development workflow…the definitive thread!

Ok, I don't know about you but I've had enough looking around at what workflow I should be using to make Kiln work in our production environment. I've been at this for 3 weeks! I'v …
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How can I have “my” branch repository linked to “my” branch library and then merge them back to their parents?

I have a project which has a subrepository linked to it and I'd like to branch my project, and also my subrepository so I can work on both and merge back from time to time. I tri …
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Does it make sense to use named branches and branch repositories together?

First off, I like most of what branch repositories offer. They're easier to manage from Kiln. They're easier to throw away if needed. They're easier to work with in most ways. …
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Merge From Branch

I know this question gets asked frequently and I've searched and I'v read the question/answer. However, that seems full of many manual steps and not all that clear. Yes, I'm new to …

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