news from the topic experiment

[Kevin Bullock]

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 20:14, Jun Wu <quark at fb.com> wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Sean Farley's message of 2016-09-22 17:30:34 -0700:
>> Completely false. Take a look at the hgtopics repo:
>> 
>> $ hg log --debug -vr 093a | grep "\(topic=\|phase\)"
>> phase:       public
>> extra:       topic=stackheader
> 
> I admit I didn't look into the details carefully. Sorry for that.
> 
> I think the major difference is the "local" vs "global" part. I do think
> having the ability to give changesets private labels locally can be useful -
> that's probably another extension other than "topic".

It's not even an extension -- if a local label is what you want, we've had localtags since before bookmarks existed.

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