Bookmarks in core?

Alexander Solovyov piranha at piranha.org.ua
Tue Nov 30 07:02:04 CST 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 00:42, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>> > - I think the track.current option is confusing. Why not enable it by
>> > default?
>> Two reasons. (1) backward compatibility. The first implementation fo bookmarks
>> didn't have this flag. If we enable it, we can confuse people that use bookmarks
>> without that option.
>
> At the risk of being villified by Peter Williams, if no one can explain
> why that behavior actually makes sense and why changing it would break
> any realistic use case, we might want to consider it a bug and drop it.
> Moving bookmarks into core will be our last chance to fix things like
> this up.

I'm strongly +1 on making this default and the only option, because it
caused confusion for everyone using branches I know (when I forgot
to tell t

-- 
Alexander


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