Using bookmarks in Mercurial itself

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
> Patrick Mézard <pmezard at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Le 17/06/11 13:08, Martin Geisler a écrit :
>>>
>>> It's of course just a gut feeling, but I feel that a DVCS should
>>> allow us to commit and experiment more freely than we do today.
>>
>> Mercurial is a DVCS, not your everyday project library or web
>> framework. If broken stuff is pushed,
>
> I did not talk about pushing broken stuff, I talked about pushing stuff
> where the test suite still passes.
>
>> I lose data because I run tip.
>
> If bookmarked branches are even slightly useful, then it should be
> possible to have them in a repository while also have a stable default
> branch tip. But you're right that
>
>  hg update stable
>  hg update default
>
> might take you back to a "random" head on the default branch, including
> a head on an experimental branch. That does sound dangerous -- would a
> "crew" bookmark on the right default head solve this?

Bookmarks on anonymous branches which live in a named branch "crew" or
"features"?
-parren