Bookmarks usage survey

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Stephen Lee <sphen.lee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to get a feel for how many people are using bookmarks,
> and how they use them.
>
> 1) Do you use bookmarks? How do you use them/what does your workflow look like?
>

Yes, I do.  I mostly use them locally, as I have found the pollution
of bookmarks across repos to be somewhat annoying.  I bookmark,
commit, issue pull request / patchbomb, and then update back to
remote(tip) to start work afresh.

> 2) Are they working well for you? Any pain points?

For me, the asymmetry of push/pull has been something of a problem.
People in my collaboration really like bookmarks, as do I, but if they
push and then delete, they can often get the bookmark back from my
repo and have to delete it again.  This has been a pain point
recently, since deletion doesn't propagate, and even pulling a given
revision will pull down any bookmarks from the remote repo.  I
understand why this is, but it's a pain point.  Additionally,
bookmarks *mostly* work in Bitbucket, but not ideally as PRs can't be
issued from bookmarks or to bookmarks, and bookmarks sometimes drift
on update.

>
> 3) If you don't use them, is there something preventing you? What do
> you use for feature branches instead?

We use a combination.  Our larger, longer-lived features are done in
branches.  For example, my main project is "yt" and we have "yt-3.0"
and "stable" branches.  Within these, we do development in bookmarks,
particularly for collaborative development.

-Matt

>
> I would really like to hear from some of the bigger players (Facebook, Mozilla).
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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