[PATCH 5 of 6 RFC] destutil: show number of other branch heads, even if on a closed head

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 02/24/2016 03:17 PM, FUJIWARA Katsunori wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User FUJIWARA Katsunori <foozy at lares.dti.ne.jp>
> # Date 1456322433 -32400
> #      Wed Feb 24 23:00:33 2016 +0900
> # Node ID 1f9b3d38e380b018cbe10ed1acee882c014e3763
> # Parent  54683cfda6e09c5502ad133d5a023929531a6b8b
> destutil: show number of other branch heads, even if on a closed head
>
> Before this patch, bare "hg update" doesn't show number of other
> non-closed branch heads, if working parent is on a closed branch head
> at the end of updating. This might mislead user into overlooking other
> non-closed branch heads.
>
> This patch gets a list of all branch heads regardless of closed-ness
> of it, and uses it to examine whether working parent is on a branch
> heads or not.

closed head should mostly disapear from the UI. I personnaly don't think 
this is a move in the right direction to include them in this warning again.

I'm unclear about your sentence:

 > if working parent is on a closed branch head
 > at the end of updating. This might mislead user into overlooking other
 > non-closed branch heads.

Can you elaborate on this scenario. What's happening, what is printed 
and why is this confusing for the user?

-- 
Pierre-Yves David