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Philip Metzger
d9c68e08b1 everything: Rename branches to bookmarks
Jujutsu's branches do not behave like Git branches, which is a major
hurdle for people adopting it from Git. They rather behave like
Mercurial's (hg) bookmarks. 

We've had multiple discussions about it in the last ~1.5 years about this rename in the Discord, 
where multiple people agreed that this _false_ familiarity does not help anyone. Initially we were 
reluctant to do it but overtime, more and more users agreed that `bookmark` was a better for name 
the current mechanism. This may be hard break for current `jj branch` users, but it will immensly 
help Jujutsu's future, by defining it as our first own term. The `[experimental-moving-branches]` 
config option is currently left alone, to force not another large config update for
users, since the last time this happened was when `jj log -T show` was removed, which immediately 
resulted in breaking users and introduced soft deprecations.

This name change will also make it easier to introduce Topics (#3402) as _topological branches_ 
with a easier model. 

This was mostly done via LSP, ripgrep and sed and a whole bunch of manual changes either from
me being lazy or thankfully pointed out by reviewers.
2024-09-11 18:54:45 +02:00