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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(-) [+]
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--- 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