Feature request : branch rename and apropos like help command ?

[Mathieu Clabaut]

Hello,

 I'm just beginning to really work with named branches (I know it is late).
 They are very convenient, but as some other have noticed, the lack of
renaming is quite a burden when working with others projects (see
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BranchPlan)...
 For example, I'm working with web2py framework whose main (and only branch)
is called default.
 In my working repository, I would have like to have my own branch (i.e.
with my application) called default, and web2py devel called 'web2py'.
 It would also allow to pull from another python library used for this
development in a third branch, which is not possible for now because both
web2py and the other library use 'default'  branch for their development.

 I've seen some work for this :
http://bitbucket.org/abuehl/hgext-branchident/wiki/Home

 What is the state of branch renaming ?


 Also it would be very nice to have something like 'apropos' for man, to
find which mercurial command has a keyword in its help...
 For example I knew it was possible to close a branch, but I could not find
information about closing in branches or branch help (I finally found it in
commit help).
 'hg apropos close' would have tell me to look into 'commit' help.

 I may try to send a patch if it seems relevant to you.


Best regards,

-Mathieu
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