On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hiho,
>
> Yesterday i did an odd thing and i'm curious about whether the result is
> correct:
>
> a) want to commit to avoid code loss but found a bad bug in last-minute
> testing, so create a branch:
> f commit --branch no-value ...
> b) ...fix bug... it wasn't as bad as i thought...
> f commit --branch trunk
>
> So now i'm back on the trunk. It can be seen here:
>
> http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/cwal/index.cgi/timeline?c=2013-05-31
>
> i didn't notice immediately, but i now see that the trunk i originally
> branched from is still opened, leading to two open leaves on the trunk:
>
> http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/cwal/index.cgi/leaves
>
> Of course i can close the older one, but before i do, i wanted to ask if
> this is the expected behaviour, or if the older one should automatically be
> closed when that same branch is committed to down the line?
>

I think the current behavior is expected and desirable.  If we change
Fossil to start "automatically" closing branches, I suspect what would
happen is that it would end up closing branches that we didn't want to be
closed.


-- 
D. Richard Hipp
[email protected]
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