Proposed bookmarks plan posted to wiki

[Kevin Bullock]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 14:42 -0500, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> 
>> * Warn (with hint) when pushing changesets that are bookmarked without pushing the bookmarks (suggested by [[marmoute]]: http://markmail.org/message/pxemyessq6ek7ynw).
> 
> I don't think a warning is sufficient. Given our non-existent support
> for unpushing, this warning will usually translate as "you idiot, you
> just pushed the code you were trying to keep local".
> 
> Sometimes our "no new heads" restriction will prevent this class of
> accident, but I think we should aim to do it more generally.

If it's more than a warning, then I can't keep a local-only bookmark on public changesets. Such a bookmark might not be on a head, it might be way back in history, but it's only a note to myself. In your scheme, how do I keep that from polluting other remotes that I push to?

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Kevin R. Bullock

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