[PATCH] commands: add support for 'hg log -b .' (issue2078)

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org> wrote:
> This is also what it does. '.' is local for both push and pull (and out/in).
> The wish for -b foo to fallback to looking up foo and using its branch can't
> be carried out right now, which I also mentioned on the list some time ago;
> the protocol doesn't allow us to retrieve the branch of a remote revision.
>
> For now, -b foo where foo isn't a branch, _does_ lookup foo on the remote,
> but uses it as -r foo instead, essentially. It may make more sense to
> produce an error instead in that case.

-b foo should only work if foo is a local rev, no?

Benoit