bookmarks and branches
Marko Käning
mk362 at mch.osram.de
Wed Feb 25 12:04:24 CST 2009
Hi Bill,
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Bill Barry wrote:
> This subtlety means a few things:
> 1. a bookmark can only point to one revision at a time whereas a named branch
> can have multiple heads
This is probably the most important difference here.
> 2. as of right now bookmarks do not transfer over the wire whereas branches do
> (I think work is being done on this front though)
I got that one, bookmarks are up to now really local to a clone.
> 3. bookmarks can be deleted, but branches are irrevocably part of history
> forever
Yes, that's what we started from.
Ok, summarizing one can then state that bookmarks are a nice way to keep
track of the head of a certain branch in the whole changeset tree.
Thanks for the response!
Greets,
Marko
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