Why Does Update with No Args Move Bookmark?

[Becker, Mischa J]

From: Martin Geisler [mailto:martin at geisler.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: Why Does Update with No Args Move Bookmark?
>
> "Becker, Mischa J" <mischa.becker at fredmeyer.com> writes:
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>> 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

You are right, local tags are exactly what I want.  Thanks to the several people who suggested them.

Now I'm wondering if I missed -local  because I didn't really understand it or if that functionality was added after I stopped using tags.  Even with people recommending -local, I wasn't originally sure I wanted to mess with tags again.  The tag help says,

     ... This also means that tagging creates a new commit. The file ".hg/localtags" is
     used for local tags (not shared among repositories).'

My brain got hung up on 'creates a new commit', which is one of the reasons I stopped using tags, and never made the connection that 'not shared among repositories' meant 'does NOT create a commit', which seems obvious in retrospect. :p

Mischa

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