What is a "tip"?

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 14:53 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> 2011/12/6 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
> > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 11:01 -0600, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> >> On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> >>
> >> > I think this is a documentation bug. Consider,
> >> >
> >> >    jordi at Iris:~$ hg help tip
> >> >    [...]
> >> >        The tip revision (usually just called the tip) is the
> >> >        changeset most recently added to the repository (and therefore
> >> >        the most recently changed head).
> >> >
> >> > as opposed to
> >> >
> >> >    jordi at Iris:~$ hg help update
> >> >    [...]
> >> >        Update the repository's working directory to the specified
> >> >        changeset. If no changeset is specified, update to the tip of
> >> >        the current named branch.
> >>
> >> I think our recent usage of terminology would have this as "head of
> >> the current named branch". Talking about a "branch tip" is something I
> >> try not to do because it's confusing.
> >
> > A branch can have many heads, but when you say 'hg update foo', the
> > revision chosen is the most recently added, highest numbered head of
> > that branch. In other words, it's exactly analogous to our normal
> > usage of tip, except restricted to the branch.
> 
> Would it make sense to patch the tip command to at least accept an
> option to give you the tip of the current branch and do the global tip
> by default?

I'd really just rather hide the concept of the global tip entirely,
including the tip command.

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