StatesPlan - a draft of the sprint discussion about liquid hg

[Matt Mackall]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 18:37 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
> 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}?

You missed:

"...abandoned changesets are implemented via markers in history so they
are not part of the states concept..."

"To mark a branch as abandoned, use 'hg commit --abandon'..."

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