Some things I don't Understand

[Sean Kelley]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Peer Sommerlund
<peer.sommerlund at gmail.com> wrote:
> With bookmarks you could make what feels like a named branch, e.g.
> "scratch-feature", but if you later decide to merge the branch into your
> trunk, you can simply discard the bookmark, and your repository will carry
> no trace of the name.

In that regard, I would really prefer then that Bookmarks include the
strip function built-in so when I delete the bookmark I can literally
blow away the short lived branch.

Sean

>
> Compare this with a named branch "scratch-feature". Here you can also merge
> the work into your trunk, but the name "scratch-feature" will forever be in
> your repository, even though you may have closed it.
>
> Of course you could also use MQ or pbranch if you do not want the
> intermediate changesets of your scratch-feature to live in the main
> repository.
>
> Regards,
> Peer
>
> 2009/2/23 bradford <fingermark at gmail.com>
>>
>> Could someone provide me with an example of how to use bookmarks to
>> create a scratch branch (for a short lived feature)?
>>
>> Thanks for all of your comments,
>> Bradford
>>
>> >> 3) What's the status on the local branches project?  It seems like it
>> >>    would be useful and probably be the answer to my question #2.
>> >
>> > That's what Bookmarks are supposed to provide.
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