xemacs repo: a lot of anonymous branches: evolve: add named branches

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Uwe.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 18:47:02 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> Hi

> I just digged a bit in the history of  the xemacs repository  in bitbucket.

> https://bitbucket.org/xemacs/xemacs

> It turns out that there are tons of anonymous branches.

> Just do a 

> hg log | grep 9624523604c5

> Or 

> hg log -G | grep 9624523604c5

> And see for yourself.

> This is a public repository (and goes back to 2007 a time where
> mercurial maybe did have bookmarks nor named branches).

> Is there any possibility, with the evolve extension to change these
> anonymous branches to named branches??

> I presume this is impossible because it is a public repository,
> nevertheless I am curious.

It's also a project which, while maybe not yet pushing up the daisies,
is not in the rudest of health, either.  (For non-native English
speakers, it's nearly dead.)

So why spend time and effort on such a non-vigorous project?  I'm
curious, too.

> Thanks

> Uwe Brauer 

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).