Bookmarks - Tutorial / Git comparison

[Christian Ebert]

* ml_alexanderschatten at gmx.at on Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 11:40:32 +0200
> I must confess, I do not really understand the concept of
> bookmarks, and a could not find a proper tutorial about it.
> Also the "Definitive guide" does not cover the topic; the
> "branching" tutorial is also a little bit thin.
> 
> Can anyone point me to a more detailed source? Particularly now
> with 1.6, where pushing of bookmarks is possible?

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BookmarksExtension

> I also do not quite understand the comparison with git. As far
> as I understand, git has the (nice) feature of cheap (feature)
> branches that can be also removed without "traces". How
> bookmarks are similar here, I miss to understand.

http://blog.experimentalworks.net/2008/11/mercurial-bookmarks/

Note that I don't use bookmarks myself, but this might get you
started.

c
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