Using bookmarks in Mercurial itself

[Martin Geisler]

Peter Arrenbrecht <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Le 17/06/11 13:08, Martin Geisler a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> It's of course just a gut feeling, but I feel that a DVCS should
>>>> allow us to commit and experiment more freely than we do today.
>>>
>>> Mercurial is a DVCS, not your everyday project library or web
>>> framework. If broken stuff is pushed,
>>
>> I did not talk about pushing broken stuff, I talked about pushing stuff
>> where the test suite still passes.
>>
>>> I lose data because I run tip.
>>
>> If bookmarked branches are even slightly useful, then it should be
>> possible to have them in a repository while also have a stable default
>> branch tip. But you're right that
>>
>>  hg update stable
>>  hg update default
>>
>> might take you back to a "random" head on the default branch, including
>> a head on an experimental branch. That does sound dangerous -- would a
>> "crew" bookmark on the right default head solve this?
>
> Bookmarks on anonymous branches which live in a named branch "crew" or
> "features"?

Yeah, that is a possibility! Right now switching branches only "works"
because both of our branches have a single head -- if a branch has more
than one head, 'hg update branch' becomes scary.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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