Bookmarks with hg update question

Scott Palmer swpalmer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 17:11:19 UTC 2016


On Jun 28, 2016, at 1:05 PM, Becker, Mischa J <mischa.becker at kroger.com> wrote:

>> From: Scott Palmer
>> Subject: Re: Bookmarks with hg update question
>> 
>> Am I the only one that thinks the current behaviour makes sense?
>> 
>> Scott
> 
> If I recall correctly, bookmarks originally mimicked git branches.  Anyone coming to hg from git intrinsically understood bookmark behavior.  Those of us who came to hg from reading books found bookmark behavior weird. :)
> 
> I'm slightly surprised there haven't been several other people pushing for bookmarks to stay exactly as is.  Maybe there are less git to hg people currently following the list.

I don't use git. I find it very awkward compared to Mercurial. I came from a Subversion background and went to Mercurial.

Scott




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