Bookmarks in core?

[Brodie Rao]

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.