feature proposal: named branches without named branches

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Thu Nov 17 18:35:16 UTC 2016



On 11/17/2016 07:45 AM, Nicolas Pinault wrote:
>
>> What you can do is using mutable hg. That gives you a way to rename
>> branches and others can simply follow up via `hg evolve`.
>>
>> That gives named branches the flexibility of bookmarks (but is still
>> experimental - though that’s been the state for years).
>>
>> See https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/EvolveExtension
> Any reason why evolve is still experimental ?

Yes, there is multiple area that still needs work to be given to any 
users and the amount of people working on it is still too low.

This page is mostly up to date: 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ChangesetEvolutionDevel

Cheers,

-- 
Pierre-Yves David



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