[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
 > Am 22.03.2011 02:02, schrieb Eugene Toder:
 > >> Not if the changes you want to suppress are actually also on the same
 > >> branch as the one whose mainline you are trying to see (which they
 > >> typically are, with the branch typically being "default").
 > >
 > > Right, that would amount to not using named branches. But if you
 > > develop on a named feature-branch and merge into "default" when ready
 > > your local history is easy to filter-out without rebasing or
 > > collapsing.
 > 
 > Ah. We don't support this kind of development - no new named branches
 > are allowed in the central repository.

Maybe it would be possible to allow *closed* named branches, which
would support such filtering.