StatesPlan - a draft of the sprint discussion about liquid hg

[Augie Fackler]

On May 7, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> I've written this up in a form I hope gives a pretty clear plan for the
> groundwork here:
> 
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/StatesPlan
> 
> This also proposes some UI for this feature (the hg state command and
> the state: field in the log), which we'd been mostly handwaving to this
> point.
> 
> I think some people at the sprint missed the discussion of the local
> feature, so please take a look at that.
> 
> I've mostly left out Pierre-Yves very interesting model for changeset
> management (briefly discussed at the end) as it would double the length
> of the document to go into a similar level of detail and states need to
> be implemented first at any rate.
> 
> Similarly, Henrik and Martin's work on dead heads shows up here as
> 'abandoned heads' mostly to illustrate that it's an orthogonal feature.

Only first-pass comment:
There's a tense disagreement between hg state --abandon and hg state --{dead,frozen}. Perhaps the latter should be --{kill,freeze}?