Bookmarks with hg update question

Scott Palmer swpalmer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 00:27:08 UTC 2016


Am I the only one that thinks the current behaviour makes sense? 

Scott

> On Jun 27, 2016, at 6:02 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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> ~Ethan~
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