[RFC] warn people about the permanence of branches

[Matt Mackall]

Looks like our efforts to alert people exposed to Git to the permanence
of branches in non-Git systems need help. I propose:

diff -r 09b200396384 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Dec 05 17:09:11 2011 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Dec 05 17:12:10 2011 -0600
@@ -855,6 +855,8 @@
                                  hint=_("use 'hg update' to switch to it"))
         repo.dirstate.setbranch(label)
         ui.status(_('marked working directory as branch %s\n') % label)
+        ui.warn(_('warning: branches are permanent and global,'
+                  ' did you want a bookmark?\n'))
     else:
         ui.write("%s\n" % repo.dirstate.branch())
 


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