Always show specific branch/bookmark

[EntilZha]

Is there a way to always display a branch/bookmark when running sl? In my case, we have:

• Repository with main
• A small number of long running branches that may or may not get merged into main. Maybe call one of this dev-a
• Our workflow is to treat dev-a as effectively our main branch to merge against.
• Every so often, we rebase/merge dev-a onto main.

I've noticed that if I am working on a change so that there is a chain: dev-a -> changes (so dev-a points to an ancestor of my current changes), but then I run sl pull -B dev-a such that it now points to a more recent commit (i.e., not an ancestor of my current commits), that smartlog will now only show main + my stack of commits, but not show where dev-a points to. It would be great to have a way to mark certain branches/bookmarks as ones to always show, similar to main/master.

I'd also be curious if there is a way to use sl pr to submit PRs against non-main branches.

[lucidNTR]

same issue, this would be a huge improvement. also the integration with isl would be important. the bookmark manager also constantly hides relevant publicheads branches if they get out of scope for any open stacks

[sggutier]

Partially copying my response from inner communication channels:

You can give it a try by doing something like

sl --config smartlog.names="$(sl config smartlog.names) dev-a"`

To permanently change the values, you can run sl config --local to edit the config for the repo by opening your text editor. Alternatively, you can set its value by running something like

sl config --local smartlog.names="$(sl config smartlog.names) dev-a"

smartlog.names controls the bookmarks shown in the smartlog (and ISL) while remotenames.selectivepulldefault changes the branches that are automatically pulled.

[sggutier]

Leaving this open until we make the configs easily discoverable or easier to change

[lucidNTR]

@sggutier thanks! thats exactly what i was looking for, just notice that i think it should be

sl config --local smartlog.names="$(sl config smartlog.names),<my branch a>,<my branch b>"

as the names look like they are comma separated