Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[David Soria Parra]

Theodore Tso schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Isaac Jurado wrote:
>>> BTW, Mercurial really needs to add better support for renaming and
>>> deleting branches to best support this particular workflow...
>> You mean better support for renaming and delecting bookmarks, right?
> 
> Well, if you're going to use bookmarks instead of hg's native
> branches, when you need is support for the concept of the "current"
> bookmark, so that commits only affect the "current" bookmark, and not
This is already in crew and will be in hg 1.2.

> all of the bookmarks that happen to be pointing at thecommit.  Also
> needed is support for being able to push and pull bookmarks, so they
> can be (optionally) shared beyond the local repository, and the
> ability to PGP sign bookmarks.  The first is probably the highest
> priority, followed by push/pull of bokmarks and followed next by PGP
> signing of bookmarks.

I'm not sure why it is needed to sign bookmarks. As far as I know it is 
not possible to sign
git branches. But I agree that push/pull is a big thing, but it requires
a wire protocol change.