Bookmarks with hg update question

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Wed Jun 22 23:07:15 UTC 2016


"Jensen, Aaron" <ajensen at webmd.net> writes:

>> Unfortunately, this is the expected behaviour. When using bookmarks, 
>> hg update with no argument should be avoided except if you really 
>> know what you are doing. The problem is that most users are used to 
>> call hg up with no arguments because even hg pull write a hint to do 
>> 'hg update' to update the working directory.
>
> This is the one behavior of Mercurial with which I vehemently disagree and would love to see change. Here is a bug that requests this change get made: [hg update moves bookmarks](https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5273). If you'd like to see this strange, unexpected behavior change, please add a comment to that bug report.

It's ok, we agreed at a previous sprint to change this. I have a
bit-rotted patch that I will try to submit this week.



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