Taking the plunge...

[Steve Dyer]

So are you saying that bookmarks would be better for feature branches?  How do you maintain the tracebility further down the line? I thought bookmarks were non persistent and confined to the local repository they were made in. 

Thanks steve

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From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com <mercurial-bounces at selenic.com>
To: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
Cc: mercurial at selenic.com <mercurial at selenic.com>
Sent: Sun Dec 04 11:13:46 2011
Subject: Re: Taking the plunge...

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
> * Feature branches can either be bookmarks (non-persistent) or named branches
> (persistent, so you can track for which feature a given change was done).

IMO, named branches should not be used for feature branches. There is a limit
on the number named branches (closed or not) in the repository after which hg
tends to slow down. That limit is high enough that you will notice it
long after your
feature-named-branch-workflow has been accepted. IIRC, hundreds of
named branches
are no problem, things start to get messy with thousands of branches.
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