1.0 approaches

[John D. Mitchell]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:55 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
[...]
> In my opinion, named branches in their current form do more harm than good.
> People use them expecting them to behave more like in-repository clones
> that they can play with and then drop, and usually become frustrated
> with them, but only after they've permanently cluttered their repositories.

I concur.  Witness the various "comparisons" that have been popping up
recently and how confused people are by the behavior/terminology.

> They also interact badly with clone and older clients, as well as having
> more benign UI warts.
>
> I'd be inclined to discourage their use strongly in 1.0 (maybe relegating
> them to debugcommands) unless they are improved. I think they will tend to
> result in bad feelings, whereas most of the rest of mercurial is warm
> and fuzzy.

Indeed.

Take care,
John