What happened to the BranchRenaming page?

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 11:35 -0700, v wrote:
> Martin Schröder wrote
> > Am 28.10.2012 18:56, schrieb v:
> >> The BranchRenaming page (a proposal for extending named branches) was
> >> deleted
> >> by mpm as "dead, non-canonical". What's that supposed to mean?
> >> 
> >> The content of the deleted page can be seen at
> >> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BranchRenaming?action=diff
> >> 
> > Maybe mpm can explain better, but the idea explained on the page was
> > buried some time ago. (There was a long discussion on the dev mailing
> > list, I don't find it anymore.)
> > 
> > I think the comment means: "This idea will not be implemented. This
> > article might be misleading for people looking for something like
> > bookmarks, which are the correct way to give a mutable name to a branch
> > of development."
> 
> Perhaps it won't be implemented by the core Mercurial developers, but
> there's no reason why it shouldn't be implemented as an extension.

The wiki's primary purpose is documentation, not discussion. Pages
describing rejected proposals without any mention that they're rejected
risk misleading people. The fact that this page was added to the wiki
after it was unambiguously rejected certainly didn't score it any
points. Here is that rejection:
        
        While this is an interesting what-if topic, I'm afraid it's
        years too late in practical terms. There's zero chance we're
        going to significantly change the underlying schema of named
        branches at this date.
        
        http://markmail.org/message/uhkplduz5ve363kq

But if you'd like to resurrect this with a note at the top that says
"{X} This page describes a rejected proposal" and put it in
CategoryRejectedProposal and remove any cross-linking from other
canonical pages, I guess we can do that. It might thus prove useful by
preventing someone from re-proposing it, though I frankly think it's
just as likely to inspire future email for me to delete.

Alternately, you can write your extension and then add a wiki page for
it. Or, you know, link to the extension that arose out of the original
thread:

https://bitbucket.org/andre_felipe_dias/hg-ibranch

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