Using Mercurial patch queue repository on BitBucket for many users and patches

Question

Sorry for the many-part question, but I am having a difficult time understanding the intended methods to use a Mercurial Patch Queue with BitBucket, and Google isn\'t helpin

Answer 1

I'm afraid, with SF heap of clones you went by "far from ideal" path to the "unmanaged chaos" milestone

• Yon can use MQ-queues with Bitbucket (see mercurial-crew-mq repo or hgsubversion-layout-hacks repo) without additional repo, only with dir inside .hg for patches
• I can't see any reasons to storing patches in own repo (changesets are almost unreadable - diffs of diffs, history of patch have near-zero value)
• With patches in one repo you can provide easy exchange and update of patches
• qclone | push --mq provide bidirectional exchange of patches on top of vanilla code
• Group-work and P2P communication around some patches for contributors may be provided with MQCollab extension