[yt-dev] Please don't delete your repositories

[Nathan Goldbaum]

And in general it's ok to have multiple heads on a repository.  If you use a couple tricks, it's easy to avoid deleting a repository just because you sprouted an extra head.

One tool I use to deal with extra heads is to always push or pull with respect to a specific revision.  For example, if I only want to push the changesets that contributed to the revision I'm currently updated to, I would do:

hg push -r .

If I only wanted the changesets that contribute to the tip of Matt's bitbucket repository (e89da84), I would do:

hg pull -r e89da84 https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt

This avoids having to no-op merge with heads that you didn't mean to create with the bonus that it forces you to specify what you really mean whenever you do an operation that might publicly publish a change.

-Nathan

On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is an empassioned plea not to delete your repositories, especially if they have been the subject of pull requests -- successful or not.  Once a repository has been deleted, all comments and code review are now gone.  They can be reconstructed from email, but are otherwise lost.
> 
> I've talked to BB support, and they suggested we open a feature request, but right now this is how things are.  So please, once you have created a repo that forms the basis of one or more pull requests, please don't delete it.
> 
> -Matt
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