effective use of in-repository branching

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> [20070208 01:01]:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:48:09PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:06, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > So we may just want to do the fixed name thing. If there's a branch
> > > marked "default" (or whatever name), we use it. Otherwise, use tip.
> > 
> > Why can't the 'default' branch be the unnamed branch, or a branch of name ''.  
> > That way named branches have to be explicitly accessed by name, otherwise you 
> > just get ''.
> 
> It's a possibility. One current problem here is that the branch cache
> currently ignores ''. But I believe Thomas has a fix for that.

There is something for this in http://hg.intevation.org/tmp/default-branch/
(from my mq queue, so I'll rebase it as appropriate)

I didn't have time to advocate for it during the last weeks, but I'm
currently catching up.

Matt, is this okay for -stable? Without that the unnamed branch
really is unusable.

Thomas

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