Re: Early pre-HEAD patch testing

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alex Rousskov
<rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com> wrote:
> The problem with branches is that you have to commit changes (and,
> later, fixes) _before_ you test. Sometimes, that is not a good idea
> because you may want to simply _reject_ the patch if it fails the test
> instead of committing/fixing it. I suspect it would be OK to abuse lp a
> little and create a "garbage" branch not associated with any specific
> long-term development but used "when I need to test a patch" instead.

You can certainly do that, and LP won't mind at all. Note though that
a parameterised build in hudson can trivially build *any* branch off
of LP, so you can equally push your experiment to
...$myexistingfeature-try-$thing-out.

-Rob
Received on Mon Feb 07 2011 - 23:55:44 MST