Branches and web interface and URLs

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Wed Feb 17 06:30:43 CST 2010


A guy on http://ln-s.net/52l_ has a point: The Mercurial web interface 
could be more helpful regarding named branches.

What do http://selenic.com/repo/hg/branches really show? Apparently not 
"branches" as the texts indicate, but more like "current named branch 
heads"?

Wouldn't it make sense if the branch names linked to for example 
http://selenic.com/repo/hg/branch/stable (which shows "changesets on the 
branch and their ancestors"?) ?

We have the http://selenic.com/repo/hg#stable notation which works for 
cloning but doesn't work in web interface. Shouldn't it be shown in the 
web interface anyway?

http://selenic.com/repo/hg/branch/stable works in web interface but 
can't be used for cloning. Shouldn't the latter be extended to work for 
branch cloning as well?

Comments?

/Mads


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