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Bare Update with Bookmarks

Status: Discussed at London Sprint

/!\ This is a work in progress

Moving an active bookmark with 'hg up' is non-deterministic and will be changed. The proposed solution is to treat a bookmark as a head and stay at the current commit when a bookmark is active.

1. Goal

To preserve the current behavior a new bookmark alias will be introduced: hg update -B .

That means there are three or so patches to achieve this:


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BookmarkUpdatePlan (last edited 2018-10-26 23:17:49 by Sean Farley)