remote bookmarks confusion and hg-git

[Bill Shannon]

Sean Farley wrote on 05/10/17 02:03 PM:
> Bill Shannon <bill.shannon at oracle.com> writes:
> 
>> I have a Mercurial repository for which I used hg-git to push it to GitHub.
>> I used git to create a gh-pages branch in the repository, which I then pulled
>> back to the original Mercurial repository.  This showed up in Mercurial as
>> "master" and "gh-pages" bookmarks.
>>
>> $ hg bookmarks
>>    gh-pages                  943:fbd5759835c2
>>  * master                    941:d7e9b0bd13b4
>> $ hg branches
>> default                      943:fbd5759835c2
>>
>> This all seems to work as expected when pushing to GitHub.
>>
>> If I clone the repository locally, the clone includes the bookmarks.
>>
>> But if I push the repository to a remote Mercurial repository, the remote
>> doesn't get any of the bookmarks.  Further clones of that remote repository
>> are obviously missing the bookmarks.
>>
>> I'm using Mercurial version 3.8.3 locally and 3.7.3 and 3.4 remotely,
>> all on Solaris.
>>
>> Do I need to do something special to cause bookmarks to be pushed and
>> retained in remote Mercurial repositories?
> 
> This is a bit of a sore spot / work in progress. You can see my work to
> bring remote bookmarks into hg-git here:
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/seanfarley/hg-git/commits/all
> 
> If you're on IRC #mercurial, I and / or others could help get a workflow
> down for you.

I'm not on IRC.

My problems don't seem to be related to hg-git.  The reason I *have*
bookmarks is because of hg-git and GitHub.

The problem seems to be moving bookmarks from one Mercurial repository
to another.  It works when everything is local, but not when one is remote.

Maybe I just don't understand how bookmarks are *supposed* to work?