Bookmark usability issues

[Stefan Rusek]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:06 PM, David Soria Parra <sn_ at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Push should know about bookmarks, and provide an option to not push
>>> bookmarked heads. "hg push --exclude-bookmarks" would allow one to
>>> create a bunch of bookmarked branches, but only push the
>>> non-bookmarked branches.
>>
>> A lot of people requested this feature. As bookmarks are not part of the
>> history, we can currently not send them over the wire. We have to enhance
>> the wireprotocol first. There was an attemp to do so, but as the wire
>> protocol has to be extremly stable, we have to be very careful with those
>> changes. There were some objections on the last attemp, and I never had the
>> time to start over with that patch.
>
> Sorry I missunderstood your here. Makes sense to have such a flag.

> But I don't know what other people think about an extension adding flags to core
> commands.
The Rebase extension adds an arg to the pull command.