Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] head selector

[Brian Downing]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:35:07PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> bdowning> I agree, it totally violates the principle of least suprise
> bdowning> in my opinion...  EXCEPT for the case where you have
> bdowning> multiple parallel lines of development going on in the same
> bdowning> branch - then that behavior is pretty much required.
> 
> That's when monotone should tell the user that the branch has several
> heads and that he/she has to make a choice, using --revision.  I see
> absolutely nothing wrong with that.  But then, h: meaning "head of
> branch" doesn't make much difference either.

That's my point for why the current behavior is useful - just giving a
list of the current heads doesn't tell the user which are decendents of
the current revision.  (Perhaps it should.)

I realize that with actual named branches, support for ease of working
with "lightweight" anonymous branches (i.e. multiple heads) might not be
the top priority.  Also, if you don't pull from unrelated repositories
you won't see the other subbranches until you're ready.  Still, I think
it's useful if it's somewhat easy if you get stuck doing it.

-bcd