topic extension

[Raffaele Salmaso]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Mario Castelán Castro <
marioxcc.MT at yandex.com> wrote:

> On 04/10/17 10:39, Nathan Goldbaum wrote:
> > I'm not sure there are docs beyond this page:
> >
> > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/tutorials/topic-
> tutorial.html
>
> Thanks you.
>
> What is the point of this extension? Why not simply use named branches
> and close them before merging?

Named branches can be heavy, expecially with large repositories.
topics should mimics the git branches, where usually you develop in a
feature branch before mergin/rebasing to master, and then you usually
delete local branch (less clutter), but I just discover that topics are
recorded in the changeset, it works only in draft/secret phase (to "remove"
you need to publish them), and more important it retouch a commit if
cleared with --clear (thanks that was only a test so no real harm is done).
I don't know if I like this approach at all.

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