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

[Sune Foldager]

On 14-04-2010 12:31, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> 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?

No... I'd like to be able to pull -b foo for a branch I don't already 
have. For push, it's just local, true, so my above paragraph is a bit 
imprecise.

/Sune