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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