From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:13:13 GMT
Subject: Re: What are branches?
Message-ID: <49C4B512-6BE0-48A6-A689-05528B9D3DDE@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090420132414.GD25059@dpotapov.dyndns.org>


On Apr 20, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:07:50PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Hg is introducing "bookmarks" now, corresponding to git branches. I
>> think this name describes the nature of git branches very well.
>
> Honestly, the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear bookmarks
> in relation to VCS is unannotated tags... The idea of self advancing
> bookmarks is really weird...

That's because you're thinking of browser bookmarks instead of a real  
bookmark.  A bookmark in a book would be rather pointless if I  
couldn't advance it as I read pages.  :-D

~~ Brian