Bookmarks in core?

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 19:41 +0100, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2010, at 20:07, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> > Discuss.
> 
> One thing that worries me a bit is if bookmarks are core part of  
> Mercurial, but won't be retained when bundling. Currently, if you make  
> bundle of a repository and unbundle it somewhere else, the new  
> repository contains everything that was in the original.
> 
> If bookmarks are made part of core, shouldn't they somehow be retained  
> in a bundle? If possible, it would be nice if bookmarks could be  
> stored in a backwards-compatible with previous versions ignoring the  
> extra data.

If we predicate bookmarks in core on adding difficult infrastructure
(this is completely impossible with the current bundle format), then
it'll never happen.

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