news from the topic experiment

[Jun Wu]

Excerpts from Denis Laxalde's message of 2016-09-26 11:26:49 +0200:
> Jun Wu a écrit :
> > Excerpts from Pierre-Yves David's message of 2016-09-23 02:43:37 +0200:
> >> In the same way large organisation will probably want to define and
> >> enforce naming scheme for topics. But they already need to do so today
> >> for named-branch of git-branch. So nothing specific to topic here.
> >
> > For git, IIUC, Bob can create a "tidy" branch that tracks
> > "alice/smartfixup". He can also rename "master" to "@", tracking
> > "origin/master". So people can name local branches whatever they like. No
> > need to have a naming scheme to avoid name collisions.
> 
> Some sort of automatic prefixing according to the symbolic name (local)
> of the repository a topic got pulled from would be very nice. There
> could even be some logic when switching to a "remote" topic (e.g.
> "alice/smartfixup") that would create a local topic (e.g. "smartfixup")
> so that the prefix would not get too invasive when actually working a topic.

This is not possible with the current topic implementation - they are
*designed* to be global.