[Monotone-devel] Re: renaming branches (was Re: Ideas and questions.)

[Peter Simons]

Nathaniel Smith writes:

 >> the ability to rename a branch in the _local_ database
 >> is what is missing at the moment.

 > Do you mind saying a few words about why?

 * I start a branch as to.cryp.foo. Then I suddenly realize
   that foobar is actually going to be a sub-part of
   to.cryp.bar, so I should have called it to.cryp.bar.foo.

 * I start a branch as priv.foobar because I have no idea
   where it will be in the public hierarchy later -- or
   whether it will ever make it into the public hierarchy.
   At some point it does and I know where; then I'd like to
   rename it.

 * I started dozens of to.cryp.{foo,bar} projects, then
   later I find out that it makes things much easier to put
   them all into a common hierarchy because these are all
   Haskell/C++/Whatever libraries, so I'd like to call them
   to.cryp.hs.{foo,bar} or to.cryp.cxx.{foo,bar} instead.

None of these branches ever made it to a public netsync
server, that's all just happening in my local database.

Did I mention that would love to have deletion of branches
in the local database too? ;-)

Peter