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

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:54:07 -0500, Brian Downing 
<address@hidden> said:

bdowning> On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:36:51PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS 
Whacker wrote:
bdowning> > Hmm, that sounds like trying to make a rational
bdowning> > explanation for something that's less than intuitive.  Or
bdowning> > maybe it's me, but if I way "update to that branch", I
bdowning> > really want that to happen, whether the head of that
bdowning> > branch is a decendent of my current revision or not.
bdowning> 
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.

Cheers,
Richard

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