local-only bookmarks and topic-branch bookmarks

[Kevin Bullock]

On 2 Apr 2013, at 11:44 AM, Christian Widmer wrote:

> hi
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/vx7ub3pojxlccgdx
> 
> is somehow related to local-only bookmarks vs topic-branch bookmarks. the solution proposed is the add an option to commit to mark the commit as secret and bookmark it at once.
> 
> this a kind of implies that local-only bookmarks are crated by commit and topic-branches with bookmark. a bit asymmetric and maybe confusing.

Note that I may want to have a local-only topic branch marked with a bookmark.

> i might be wrong and miss something but isn't it not more a property of the bookmark itself whether it is a local-only or a topic-branch bookmark? if so... is it naive to add an option to bookmark to mark it local-only? commits on local-only bookmarks would be secret and on a topic-branch draft.

This was already proposed by Pierre-Yves in the thread you referenced, but we didn't come to any conclusions. More recently we've talked about having local-only bookmarks by prefixing the name with a special character (I believe '.' got the most positive response).

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