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Bare Update with Bookmarks

Status: Decided at London Sprint

/!\ This is a work in progress

Moving an active bookmark with 'hg up' is non-deterministic and will be changed. Not only that, but there are few cases where it makes sense.

1. Goal

To preserve the current behavior a new bookmark alias will be introduced: hg update -B .

That means there are three or so patches to achieve this:

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