[RFC] warn people about the permanence of branches

[timeless]

I'd go with "no active branches in the last year". -- and yes, I know
that date stamps are fungible.

Old migrated or closed branches could date to a previous policy.

Mozilla of late has reminded me that projects have policy and people
churn and tend to forget previous decisions.

On 12/5/11, Augie Fackler <durin42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>> Looks like our efforts to alert people exposed to Git to the permanence
>> of branches in non-Git systems need help. I propose:
>>
>> diff -r 09b200396384 mercurial/commands.py
>> --- a/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Dec 05 17:09:11 2011 -0600
>> +++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Dec 05 17:12:10 2011 -0600
>> @@ -855,6 +855,8 @@
>>                                  hint=_("use 'hg update' to switch to
>> it"))
>>         repo.dirstate.setbranch(label)
>>         ui.status(_('marked working directory as branch %s\n') % label)
>> +        ui.warn(_('warning: branches are permanent and global,'
>> +                  ' did you want a bookmark?\n'))
>
> Perhaps we could be smarter about this and only do it if branches other than
> default don't already exist in the repo?
>
> I'm not sure I'm convinced one way or the other if that'd be sufficient.
>
>>     else:
>>         ui.write("%s\n" % repo.dirstate.branch())
>
>
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