Bookmarks in core?

[David Soria Parra]

On 2010-11-30, Brodie Rao <brodie at bitheap.org> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Brodie Rao wrote:
>
>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:07 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>>> Discuss.
>>
>> Some thoughts:
>>
>> - If we integrate them in core, I'd like to see integration with the  
>> branch command. E.g., hg branch --bookmark. I think that would make  
>> it easier for people to discover bookmarks and know that they're  
>> related to branches. On the other hand, I guess they don't  
>> necessarily have to be used like branches, so that might not be the  
>> best idea.
>>
>> - They're kind of annoying to use over the network. I don't like  
>> having to use the -B flag to manually specify what bookmarks I want  
>> to push. I've also noticed an issue with push -B where it forgets  
>> HTTP credentials from the normal push process, so sometimes you'll  
>> be asked to log in twice.
>>
>> - I think the track.current option is confusing. Why not enable it  
>> by default?
>>
>> - This might be a secondary topic, but I think it'd be great to have  
>> remote-tracking bookmarks. I.e., each entry in hg paths gets a  
>> bookmark, and pulling from a repo moves that bookmark forward. I  
>> think it'd be great to have this on by default; it would make it  
>> easier to deal with (or put off) merges involving large numbers of  
>> changesets, since you could easily identify what head each repo is at.
>
> Some additions:
>
> - We should probably move bookmarks out of the tags namespace and  
> provide a proper public method for them on the repo object.
yes, definatly a good idea. localrepo will provide a bookmarks property and
bookmarks will not be merged with tags.

> - We should have hooks for pushkey.
that's a different topic, isn't it?