Why Does Update with No Args Move Bookmark?

Martin Geisler martin at geisler.net
Thu Oct 17 06:56:36 UTC 2013


"Becker, Mischa J" <mischa.becker at fredmeyer.com> writes:

> My impression is that bookmarks were implemented to generally act how
> Git branches do. With my luck, that's probably completely wrong. :p
> But as someone who has never used Git and doesn't share repos with a
> large number of other people, bookmarks never seem to act the way I
> want\expect them to and I've mostly stopped using them.
>
> i.e. When I'm bookmarking a revision, I'm bookmarking that specific
> change set, not that branch, not that tip, etc. If I add a new commit,
> I want the bookmark to stay where it was.

That sounds like a local tag.

-- 
Martin Geisler



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