Mike Kupfer <mike.kupfer at sun.com> writes:
> I'm not able to get past the comments for localtip(). You may have
> explained this to me on IRC yesterday, but I didn't save those logs, and
> I'm afraid I can't keep it all swapped in.
We did, and I adjusted the comments, I'll paste them and hope they
help if my answers don't.
'''Return a tuple (changectx, workingctx) representing the most
representative head to act as the local tip.
The most representative head is taken to be (in order of
preference):
- If the dirstate is modified, its newest local dirstate
parent revision (or newest dirstate parent revision , if
neither is local).
- The newest local head on the current branch.
- The newest head on the current branch'''
> - What's the difference between "local parent" and "parent"? Does
> "local" mean "doesn't exist in the parent repo"? (These are parent
> changesets, yes?)
parent in that context meant "parent revision", hopefully clarified in
the comment above.
> - what does "accessible from the current dirstate parent" mean? On the
> same branch?
On this branch, merged into this branch, or prior to this branch being
created.
(there's an appropriate graph term, I just can't recall it.)
Perhaps "in our lineage" is a better way to put?
-- Rich
