Re: extra head

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 08/16/2013 03:37 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 16 August 2013 15:43, Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Is there supposed to be something
> > in the changeset header that associates the changeset with the bookmark?
>
> No, bookmarks by their very nature are supposed to be ephemeral.

OK, I just confirmed that too.  I did the "hg pull -B @" and it imported 
the @ bookmark and I see that when I do "hg log".  I then did a test 
export and the changeset header looks no different.


>  You
> can delete them at any time and there is no record of them ever
> existing. By contrast, the cset header has a bunch of information that
> uniquely identifies this cset, like the author, the time when it
> happened, the named branch it's on (these names are permanent), and
> the parent commit.

Yes, bookmarks seem like it shouldn't be something that causes a 
branch/merge problem.

Thanks,

Dan