A few days ago, I posted here about the basics of working with mercurial. A little after that, Tor Norbye, from Sun Microsystems and The Java Posse, posted about his workflow with mercurial, a few problems he had with it, and how he solved these issues. I really like what he said, and I’m considering using the suggested workflow. If you are interested, take a look at his post.

The main issue is related to the fact that, more often than not, we need to commit part of the files we have changed in our projects, because we might be working on several things at the same time, and only one of them of ready to be committed.

But mercurial doesn’t seem to like this. So, to sum up the approach Tor now uses, you can work with two local repositories: one with the actual changes, and one exclusively to do the commits. When it is “commit time”, you “send” the files to be committed from the working repository to the commit one. See his post for the details.

I’ll try that out, let’s see how it feels 🙂