Posts Tagged ‘bookmarks’

Mercurial Bookmarks Revisited – Part I

Bookmarks is an extension to the Mercurial SCM, which adds git-like branches to Mercurial. The extension is distributed together with Mercurial.
Recently the extension has received a major update. Time to look back.

This is a series of blogposts that consists of three parts:

(1) Part I: History of Bookmarks
(2) Part …

Mercurial bookmarks

Please note that this blog post is outdated. please refer to the mercurial help for more information about bookmarks.

A few month ago, Matt Mackall the maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, came up with the idea to implement so called bookmarks for mercurial.
Basic idea
The basic idea of these bookmarks is simple. Instead of …