Mercurial: closing named branches

[kareila]

I will shortly be pushing changesets that close the staging and production branches in the dw-free repository. The branch system hasn't been used effectively and causes problems whenever cloning a new copy of the repository, so I'm reverting to using the default branch for all development.

There shouldn't be any user facing changes from this, except for one change to bootstrap.pl. However, if you run into any difficulties please let me know immediately. Thanks!

ETA: my testing shows that you may have to manually do hg update -C tip after pulling in the dw-free changes, since the active branch has been switched. After that everything should work normally, although the branches will not appear to be closed until you update Mercurial to a version that supports branch closings.

Comments

[pauamma]

Was that an attempt to o something along the lines of http://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/45819.html?thread=403451#cmt403451 ? If so, does that mean we're dropping tbe idea, or just the implementation?

[vlion]

Interesting. So mq is the One True way now?

/hates mq.

//doesn't do dw dev, so his opinion doesn't count

[sophie]

On the Dreamhack machine, everything seems to be fine; there's apparently no need to do any special commands after updating. It's currently using Mercurial 0.9.5 (as the box itself is still on Hardy Heron). tip shows up correctly even without an explicit "hg update -C tip".