Bookmarks with hg update question

[Scott Palmer]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Fischer <andrew at apastron.co> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > Workarounds bookmark users currently use
> > ========================================
> >
> > James Reynolds asked: is there a setting that will prevent bookmarks from
> > moving when running `hg up`?
> >
> > Andrew Fischer's team used a bashrc setting that blocks bare `hg update`
> >
> > Mischa Becker used `hg up current~0` to update to a bookmark without
> > activating it.
> >
> > David Demelier advised `hg pull -B the_bookmark_name` to put an
> > inadvertently moved bookmark back in its old place.
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Thanks Sietse for that summary of the thread so far. I actually missed the
> last suggestion: 'hg pull -B the_bookmark_name' to restore a moved
> bookmark, that's helpful to know!
>
> Great to see all of this discussion happening. I've been a mercurial
> proponent for years, and the bookmark update is the only behaviour I
> consistenly have trouble with when introducing it to other users.
>


I was just poking around in the Mercurial wiki and noticed this extension:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/JournalExtension

I believe it is relevant to this conversation.  I have not tried it yet.

It is scheduled to be integrated with core Mercurial in 3.9:
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ExperimentalExtensionsPlan?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryNewFeatures%5Cb%29


Scott
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