Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular [was: Re-linking to revlib implemented]

[Scott Bronson]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 13:22, James Blackwell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:34:45PM -0800, Scott Bronson wrote:
> > Personally, I could really use a way to hide obsolete branches.  Often I
> > won't make a branch simply because, if I did make one every time I had
> > the urge, in 6 months I'd end up with 30 useless branches cluttering up
> > the output of tla rbrowse.  It's easier in the longer term just to
> > cherry pick a bit.
> 
> Yeah. Me too.
> 
> I fixed rbrowse so that sealed trees are not seen by default. Then I
> sealed all of my old branches. I was (and am) very, very happy with the
> results.  I was so happy with the results that I rushed a merge request
> to Tom. 
> ...
> > Yes, this would be excellent if there were also a way to seal a branch
> > and NOT hide it.
> 
> There is an option to show sealed versions as well.

Nice.  This sounds pretty darned close to my ideal.  I hope
Tom takes the patch.

    - Scott