Branches in general

[Brendan Cully]

On Friday, 08 June 2007 at 19:36, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 16:21 -0700, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
> > Something about the way Mercurial has implemented branches just doesn't
> > seem right to me.  Here is a link to an interesting conversation Brendan
> > and I had about this yesterday evening (PDT anyway) on IRC.
> > 
> > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/LocalBranches
> 
> So, one opinion I've gotten from someone who's been a contributor in the
> past detailed a real-world experience in which this person found the
> current branch implementation to be worse than useless.  The opinion was
> very negative and reflected most of my fears about how the feature might
> play out in the real world.
> 
> I think, perhaps, that this feature should be revisited and something
> else should be thought of instead.
> 
> Hmmm...,

As you know, I also have my doubts about hg's branches, but I'd be
curious to know what the specific drawbacks were, and how current the
implementation was. Most of the UI work to make branches halfway
reasonable happened after 0.9.3 was released. Some of it is only a few
days old...
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