bzr heads help

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 8/30/2011 9:25 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:56:27 +0300 From: Alexander Belchenko
>> <bialix at ukr.net> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>> 
>>> 2. What is the difference between live and dead heads? My guess
>>> is that a live head is one that exists in a branch, but has not
>>> been merged into any other branch?
>> 
>> live head -- exists in the branch as branch tip.
>> 
>> dead head -- tip revision not in the branch.
>> 
>> Dead head created by `bzr uncommit`, `bzr merge && bzr revert` or
>> `bzr pull --overwrite` (losing your local history). The purpose
>> of `heads` command is to be able to find revision ids for lost
>> revisions.
> 
> It would be _really_ nice to have all this information as part of 
> "bzr help heads".
> 
> TIA
> 

'bzr merge && bzr revert' doesn't create a dead head, because 'merge'
doesn't create a node. You can only create nodes with 'commit'. And
pull them into your graph with pull, etc.

John
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