deleting a named branch

[Gilles Moris]

On Fri June 13 2008 10:42:20 Martin Geisler wrote:
> From reading discussions on named branches it seems to me that the
> problem is that a name never disappears again: if I make a named
> branch called 'testing-some-stuff' that name will stick to the
> changesets committed on that branch.
> 
> Some people don't like that since it forces them to chose sensible
> names upfront.
> 

There's probably 2 different workflows, one being long live branches, the other
being short term feature development. Like for active branch, it would already
be a good thing if you close/hide changesets of a branch you don't need.
I would tend to use clones for short term branches, as it seems the natural way
to do it with DVCS.

To reconcile both, I like you idea of having a separate meta data repository
to handle this information, so that tags/branches would stay local while
developing, and could be pushed once stable.
But that seems even more challenging than the Bookmark or Marker concepts.

Regards.
Gilles.