Why you don't want to allow disabling "branches are global and permanent, did you want a bookmark"?

Laurens Holst laurens.nospam at grauw.nl
Thu Aug 9 07:37:07 CDT 2012


Op 09-08-12 13:28, v schreef:
> Adrian Buehlmann wrote
>> On 2012-08-09 10:59, v wrote:
>>> How about: "The branch name will be permanently recorded on commit. For
>>> alternatives, see hg help bookmarks."
>> If Mercurial nowadays really has to start getting *that* chatty, that's
>> probably an acceptable compromise.
>>
>> But I really wonder why we now even have to hint at other features
>> (bookmarks) in status messages of unrelated commands (branch).
>>
>> Can't we expect that people would start looking around for alternatives
>> if they are told that the branch name will be permanent, likely noticing
>> that that perhaps is *not* what they expect? Perhaps this would then be
>> enough motivation for those poor git refugees to finally start reading
>> some help texts? (like for example "help branch", which already has a
>> prominent notice about bookmarks?)
> Perhaps that should be "The branch name will be permanently recorded on
> commit. For alternatives, see the help topic." I would prefer something more
> concise, but I couldn't think of anything with the right tone.

Afaik it’s a rather strict requirement that any message needs to fit on 
an 80-character line.

~Laurens



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