On: On Git's lack of respect for immutability and the Best Practices for a DVCS

[gecko]

Mercurial's patch queues ultimately provide very similar benefits and drawbacks to git rebasing, except that:

1. Patch queues may be version indefinitely, since they are their own Mercurial repository, rather than eventually expiring, like rebased commits in the git reflog; but

2. The above requires you maintain discipline in committing the state of your patch repository

Although the second can be trivially automated, the default behavior--rewriting your patch whenever you issue `hg qrefresh`--is far from optimal.

[jrockway → gecko]

Your post is making the site difficult to read (horizontal scrolling). Can you reformat the bullet points to not be in a code block?

Edit: thank you :)

[gecko → jrockway]

Done.