Bookmarks in core?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Nov 29 18:03:43 CST 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 17:30 -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> > Discuss.
> 
> Meh.  I dabbled with bookmarks back before the pushtag stuff, and they
> sure weren't compelling then.  For most work, I am absolutely smitten
> by MQ; I just love it to bits.  I just can't see myself using
> bookmarks, or selling it to my co-workers, simply because it's in
> core.

I see bookmarks as orthogonal to MQ. They're primarily a way of tracking
otherwise anonymous heads. If you never have more than one head per
named branch and can't figure out when that would be useful, then indeed
it's not for you.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.




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