Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by jschwartzi on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @11:28AM (#11676168)

It's probably the same idea as the one behind committing once in Mercurial and then using commit --amend repeatedly as you refine the changes. Git's method sounds like it avoids a pitfall in that method by holding your last changeset in a special area rather than dumping it into a commit so that you can't accidentally push it.

I often amend my latest commit as a way to build a set of changes without losing my latest functional change.

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Re:Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, no... by Annatar on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:04AM (#11683885)

I always do a hg diff before I commit. If in spite of that I still screw up, I do a hg rollback, and if I already pushed, I either roll back on all the nodes, or I open a bug, and simply commit a bug fix with a reference to the bug in the bug tracking system. I've been using Mercurial since 2007 and I've yet to use --amend.

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