Bookmarks with hg update question

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jun 27 22:02:16 UTC 2016


On 06/27/2016 02:35 PM, Jensen, Aaron wrote:

>> The downside of which is, of course, that it changes previous default behaviour
>> which, for very good reasons, Mercurial very rarely does, **Thanks Devs this makes
>> life a lot simpler**.
>
> I agree. Maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible. But I disagree that
 > backwards compatibility should always win. I think this is a good 
exception to make.

Yes, backwards compatibility is not king, and this misfeature needs to 
change.  A commandline switch is the best solution for it.

I stopped using bookmarks the first time my bookmark moved without my 
telling it to.

--
~Ethan~




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