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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/12/29 Maris Fogels <maris.fogels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> My work often involves reviewing and running other people's branches.  Those
> branches drift away from trunk, so most of the time I must run 'make schema'
> to downgrade the database revision and run their branch.  I then have to run
> 'make schema' again when I switch back to my original work.

Is it necessary to run those branches to review them?  In Bazaar we
normally don't do that.

What kind of problems do you detect by running it?  Are you manually
testing for bugs?

If it's that you need to run it to see how it looks, perhaps overall
efficiency could be improved by having the original developer (who
does have it running) attach screenshots or screencasts to the bug or
mp?  That could get broader feedback from the user community.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>