hg branches --confuse: close, and list to be more intuitive

[Thomas Burdick]

Renaming branches created with hg branch probably wouldn't be possible/easy.
If you want that ability use bookmarks instead.

-Tom

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:25 AM, rupert.thurner <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
> could the branch user interface be slightly changed please?
>
> 1. open and close a branch with the same command
>   hg branch
>   hg branch --close
>
> 2. help text for "hg branch" contains a hint
>    that close is done via commit --close-branch as well
>
> 3. default: list only open branches
>   at least for our use case, we would like to distinguish
>   between open and closed branches. i.e. hg branches
>   should give a list off usable branches (open ones). to
>   allow to list closed branches as well, an additional option
>   would be necessary, e.g. hg branches --all.
>
> 4. provide a "hg branch --rename"
>
> 5. provide a "hg branch --delete"
>
> what do you think?
>
> the reason why i dare asking: our users, including me were looking now
> for a couple of days how to "delete a branch" (not having the idea it
> is called "close"). so we checked hg branch, hg branches, hg remove,
> hg addremove. nobody had the idea it is hidden in "hg commit".
>
> git has one command for this: git branch, with the options -d
> (delete), and -m (move / rename). mercurial distributes this into hg
> branch, hg branches, hg commit.
>
> rupert
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