inactive branches? (simple question)

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 14:49 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >  hg branches
> > test11                        21:3269769d1cf6
> > constrained_value             19:77cd62e886f3 (inactive)
> > vector                        17:e35e7ce4d791 (inactive)
> > traits                        15:1a8365415e86 (inactive)
> > multiarray                    13:9e88a14b2b8f (inactive)
> > mersenne                      11:d8e0b3807029 (inactive)
> > BUILD                          9:2f786d2ec31d (inactive)
> > user-config                    7:4cd7e52c8046 (inactive)
> > hgignore                       5:2ad1a7301aa9 (inactive)
> > default                        3:aa67a6883458 (inactive)
> >
> > What does 'inactive' mean?
> 
> I've updated our glossary with this text:
> 
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net>
> # Date 1282046377 -7200
> # Branch stable
> # Node ID 528ff7610cbac3585358bad659e74a6aee9eafbf
> # Parent  2be70ca1731165935aaf751c60f161655c87a7f5
> glossary: add entry for "Branch, inactive"
> 
> diff --git a/mercurial/help/glossary.txt b/mercurial/help/glossary.txt
> --- a/mercurial/help/glossary.txt
> +++ b/mercurial/help/glossary.txt
> @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@
>  Branch head
>      See 'Head, branch'.
>  
> +Branch, inactive
> +    If a named branch has no topological heads, it is considered to be
> +    inactive. As an example, a feature branch becomes inactive when it
> +    is merged into the default branch. The :hg:`branches` command
> +    shows inactive branches by default, though they can be hidden with
> +    :hg:`branches --active`.
> +
> +    NOTE: this concept is deprecated because it is too implicit.
> +    Branches show now be explicitly closed using :hg:`commit

'should'

> +    --close-branch` when they are no longer needed.
> +
> 
> See 'hg help glossary' in the next stable release.
> 
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