Mercurial Workflow: Feature seperation via named branches

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 14 12:25:54 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 09:47 -0700, Judson Wilson wrote:
> > The reason that note is there is that the #1 question we get about named
> > branches by a wide margin is:
> >
> > "I made a temporary branch, how do I get rid of it?"
> >
> > The permanence of named branches is NOT an implementation detail, it's
> > bedrock design. Thus, telling people not to create them willy-nilly is
> > solid advice.
> 
> Curious if there is a more lightweight way to do this.

Yes: bookmarks.

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