On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:25:12 +0100 Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > > I've just tried bookmarks and I find them very cumbersome compared to > > named branches (which, unfortunately, can't remain local). I wonder > > what guided their design. > > Mimicking git branches.
I've hardly ever used git but I would be surprised if its change tracking abilities were so poor. > > (the core issue being that a bookmark blindly follows every commit you > > do, while you would need it to follow upstream instead!) > > I don’t really understand (I don’t really want to, I don’t care for > bookmarks), but maybe this will help: > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension#Configuration That's vaguely better (since it allows to advance one bookmark instead of both), but it still doesn't allow tracking incoming upstream changes. Meaning that as soon as I "hg pull" (not to mention "hg merge"), I lose the ability to easily make a collapsed diff of my local changes. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
