On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Doug Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back around July 10th this year, there were two emails, one an inquiry, the > second a reply off the mark, about how to use the TortoiseHg GUI to create a > new named branch. > > The change log viewer does not show the branch name in the graphical display, > though you can see it in the description window, and there is support for it > in the custom filter, which is even helpful enough to have a drop-down with > all the named branches' names in it. > > If I've missed some option, please set me straight. > I cannot find any part of the TortoiseHg GUI where I can create a named > branch. I thought the Commit window (either Internal or Qct, but unless I > missed something, there was nothing there). I also have been unable to craft > a search in the wiki or the bugtracker or the mailing list archive, that > points me to an answer, so as a last resort, I'm posting here. > > If not, unless this is an utterly trivial fix, I'm willing to wait until > after 0.4Final
Personally, I never use branch. Nor do I have clear understanding on this aspect of Mercurial. Steve Borho added some support into the changelog window. I guess he just hadn't time to got around to the management of branches in TortoiseHg. We are going to have to wait. Or perhaps you want to take a shot at it? > > --Doug > > P.S. For those who care, I did an inquiry on the mercurial list about the > overhead of using named branches for short-lived branches, but got no reply. > I write a few scripts that created a repo with 1,000 named branches of 8 > commits each. Neither hg log nor hg branches nor any other command that I > thought to try, was slowed down... so "named branches live forever" is no > reason to deny the TortoiseHg GUI the ability to create them, nor does having > lots of them seem to make any difference to performance, though maybe I > missed testing something. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
