https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5495
Bug ID: 5495
Summary: No way to ask hg to update to a bookmark?
Product: Mercurial
Version: 3.8.2
Hardware: PC
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: feature
Priority: wish
Component: bookmarks
Assignee: bugzi...@mercurial-scm.org
Reporter: aalekse...@janestreet.com
CC: mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org
I want to tell hg to update to a certain bookmark and activate it. I think
there is no way to do it with hg update.
Let's say the bookmark I want to update to is called "x-y" (without quotes).
The most straightforward way:
$ hg update "x-y"
can succeed even if no such bookmark exist: it will happily update to a
revision that's present in x but not in y instead of failing with "unknown
revision 'x-y'".
It can also update to not-what-you-want in some cases even if the bookmark
exists, for example:
$ crazy_bookmark=$(hg log -r .^ --template '{node}'); hg book
"$crazy_bookmark"; hg up "$crazy_bookmark"
(In fact this comes with a bonus bug: after you do this hg gets confused and it
thinks it's both on bookmark $crazy_bookmark and on revision $crazy_bookmark!)
The less straightforward ways leave the bookmark inactive:
$ hg update 'bookmark("x-y")'
$ hg update '"x-y"'
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