Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Thoughts about 'testresult'...

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:15:57PM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 12:01:14AM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > I'd vote for making branch matching exact by default, so if I say
> > --branch=net.venge.monotone, then I mean exactly that branch, and
> > similarly for selectors.
> 
> FWIW, --branch _is_ exact, it's only b: that's not.

Actually, this is another reason not to like the recursive h: idea;
h:foo becomes ambiguous between the head of branch foo, and h:(b:foo)
= the revision that has a branch cert containing the string foo and no
descendents with branch certs containing the string foo.  Which would
be all wrong.

-- Nathaniel

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