> >> Branch Management > >> bookmarks > >> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension > >> Great for tracking bug fix work without needing to create a > >> separate working directory > > Never use them. Clones are okay. > > Same here but not everyone likes to do that and in the dev guide they > use an example of working with only 1 working directory so the > bookmark extension would be useful to people who want to follow that > method of development
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. (the core issue being that a bookmark blindly follows every commit you do, while you would need it to follow upstream instead!) 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
