feature proposal: named branches without named branches

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Ludovic Chabant <ludovic at chabant.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Nov 18, 2016, at 06:51, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > You’d have to change the phase on the server to draft, then it would
> > work. That’s possible in many settings.
>
> Oh so if you have access to the server you can modify history on
> changesets that have already been pushed and pulled by other people ?
> I was never quite clear on that aspect of Evolve...
>

Sure:

$ hg phase -r <rev> -f -d

If you have access to the server you can operate on the repo just like any
other hg repo.


>
> Do obsolescence markers and modified changesets eventually get pruned, or
> do they accumulate as part of the "secret" history of the repo? (I assume
> it's the latter?)
>

The store of obsolescence markers is append-only. There are debug commands
to delete obs markers but the intended design is to never delete them.


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