feature proposal: named branches without named branches

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Uwe Brauer writes:

>     > Uwe Brauer writes:
>
>
>     > Same for me (though I don’t have much hope given the history I have with felipec).
>
> Aha, so you know him already, he pops up regularly in google on the top
> list concerning git mercurial questions, but he seems to be a bit militant.

Yes.

>     > Especially the following by others is a huge step forward (and past
>     > git): You can actually rewrite history collaboratively as long as you
>     > did not publish it yet.
>
> Ok so here is the million dollar question: suppose you have already
> pushed to some server so the phase is public,
>
> Would the following work?
> I change phase back to private
> I apply the evolve commands you wrote below and then
> push --force
> so that the repo gets synchronized my local one

You’d have to change the phase on the server to draft, then it would
work. That’s possible in many settings.

> (and all the users who already pulled meanwhile are well they are  bit  annoyed.._

That’s why you have to do the change on the server instead of just
force-pushing a change which breaks others repos.

>     > You simply amend the changeset which initially set the branch and then
>     > evolve the history:
>
>
>     > The result is this:
>
>     > @  changeset:   5:a514636a4ef4
>     > |  branch:      stable
>     > |  tag:         tip
>     > |  user:        Arne Babenhauserheide <bab at draketo.de>
>     > |  date:        Thu Nov 17 23:51:03 2016 +0100
>     > |  summary:     stable2
>     > |
>     > o  changeset:   4:15b134eb1bcd
>     > |  branch:      stable
>     > |  parent:      0:4c3d391118f6
>     > |  user:        Arne Babenhauserheide <bab at draketo.de>
>     > |  date:        Thu Nov 17 23:50:57 2016 +0100
>     > |  summary:     stable
>     > |
>     > o  changeset:   0:4c3d391118f6
>     >    user:        Arne Babenhauserheide <bab at draketo.de>
>     >    date:        Thu Nov 17 23:50:38 2016 +0100
>     >    summary:     1
>
> Very cool, thanks, I will definitely need that.

Nice!

Happy to help ☺

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
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heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken
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