bzr heads help

[Martin Pool]

On 30 August 2011 17:38, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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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
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>>>> 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.

Well, merge won't create a revision, but in the common case of merging
from a separate repository it will implicitly fetch them, which I
guess is what Alexander was thinking of.

Could someone put up a patch to put this into the help?

M