news from the topic experiment

[Sean Farley]

Jun Wu <quark at fb.com> writes:

> Excerpts from Sean Farley's message of 2016-09-22 17:30:34 -0700:
>> Completely false. Take a look at the hgtopics repo:
>> 
>> $ hg log --debug -vr 093a | grep "\(topic=\|phase\)"
>> phase:       public
>> extra:       topic=stackheader
>
> I admit I didn't look into the details carefully. Sorry for that.
>
> I think the major difference is the "local" vs "global" part. I do think
> having the ability to give changesets private labels locally can be useful -
> that's probably another extension other than "topic".

I would definitely agree it is something else besides "topics". It might
not appear so but I would definitely be interested in your ideas for
this because I think it would help use provide something like "pull
request refs" on Bitbucket for Mercurial.