[PATCH in crew] help: document '@' bookmark in 'help bookmarks' and 'help clone'

[Kevin Bullock]

On 27 Jan 2013, at 7:06 PM, Antonio Zanardo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> That's nice to have this feature documented, but I fail to understand clearly why this feature is useful, i.e., what are the use cases?
> 
> Does the bookmark "@" exist to serve as a starting point for the contributors of a project to know which revision to base their patches?


Yep, that's about right. It's the revision you want people to get by default when they clone your project. It could represent your latest integrated, tested, non-experimental code. This is particularly useful in the presence of other bookmarks that might mark experimental or unstable work (topic branches).

pacem in terris / мир / शान्ति / ‎‫سَلاَم‬ / 平和
Kevin R. Bullock

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