Re: [Monotone-devel] New branch name with no other changes

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:

> However, as far as I understand, Hendrik really just wants the next
> commit to end up in the new branch.  The simplest way to do that is to
> edit the branch setting in _MTN/options...  I really think we should
> have a 'mtn branch' that does exactly that.  Last time I suggested
> that, there were a number of comments arguing the idea on grounds I'm
> not sure I've understood...

One objection would be from me; I want a variant of the command that
just adds a branch cert to the current revision, without changing the
workspace, because that's what my workflow requires. 

It could be difficult/confusing to have one command that does either of
those things.

Something like 'mtn edit-options branch <newbranch>' would be good; it
could also edit other fields in _MTN/options.

Then people would complain "why do I have to use this weird
'edit-options' thing just to add a new branch", just like now we
complain about using 'cert' just to add a new branch :).

mtn provides the core facilities; users get to implement many different
workflows.

Which is why I wrote a set of user commands to enforce/support my
workflow, rather than pushing for 'mtn branch' that does what I want.

Perhaps it would be useful to put my set of commands in mtn/examples.

How do other DVCs handle this? git, mercury?

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