Mercurial > hg
changeset 11911:528ff7610cba stable
glossary: add entry for "Branch, inactive"
author | Martin Geisler <mg@lazybytes.net> |
---|---|
date | Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:59:37 +0200 |
parents | 2be70ca17311 |
children | 9b842c8fb4df 8e56928e8991 |
files | mercurial/help/glossary.txt |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/mercurial/help/glossary.txt Sat Aug 14 01:30:54 2010 +0200 +++ b/mercurial/help/glossary.txt Tue Aug 17 13:59:37 2010 +0200 @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ Branch head See 'Head, branch'. +Branch, inactive + If a named branch has no topological heads, it is considered to be + inactive. As an example, a feature branch becomes inactive when it + is merged into the default branch. The :hg:`branches` command + shows inactive branches by default, though they can be hidden with + :hg:`branches --active`. + + NOTE: this concept is deprecated because it is too implicit. + Branches show now be explicitly closed using :hg:`commit + --close-branch` when they are no longer needed. + Branch, named A collection of changesets which have the same branch name. By default, children of a changeset in a named branch belong to the