Using bookmarks in Mercurial itself

[Pierre-Yves David]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:34:45PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> On Friday 17 June 2011 14:17:22 Pierre-Yves David wrote:

> I still think that liquid history is a nice idea, but it is a different 
> usecase: You try to get the history nice by hiding how you got there instead 
> of making it easier to read but keeping the way you took.
> 
> From a copyright perspective going the second route might even be imperative: 
> Only with that can you track who exactly added which change.

Nothing should prevent you to keep intermediate version of rewritten changeset.

Again, the issue with (grouped) branch + merge is that it prevent you to[1]:

    * Summit multiple clean changeset that finally lead to an higher level feature (macro-change)
    * Reorder "macro-change"
    * Split "macro-change" in multiple "macro-change"

This lead to poorer history.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David

[1] Or make it very complicated to

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