On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
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>> Use the {branch} keyword instead. Might be 1.8-only, but that'll DTRT for ya.
>>
>> For the curious: {branches} is a now-deprecated (as of 1.8) artifact of an
>> older implementation of named branches that didn't pan out.
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> {branch} is indeed 1.8 only, or at least, not in 1.7.2.
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> I figured; I recall the vaguely recall old named branches stuff being
> referred to in the past tense back when I started messing around -- I don't
> recall how it worked though (I'm curious about how it worked, mind talking
> about that off-list?)
I've mentioned all I really know, mpm brought it up in passing in #mercurial. I
wasn't morbidly curious enough to ask, as I think bookmarks are better for
everything but release branches anyway.
>
> -Colin
