When a branch in Diffusion is not tracked, the UI should be explicit about it
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	epriestley
	May 13 2016, 12:40 PM

Description

To reproduce:

Commits on master are shown, despite the branch not being tracked, so they will never be imported.

This is correct, but confusing. Clearer would be a message like "You are viewing an untracked branch." with no commits shown. Additional cases:

Create a new repository, immediately set it to track only stable before activating it, activate it, view main page.
View a branch which does not exist, and is tracked.
View a branch which does not exist, and is not tracked.
View a branch which exists, and is tracked.
Delete a tracked branch, then view it in the web UI.
Close a branch in Mercurial, then view it.

See PHI930 for a report of this.

rP Phabricator
	Abandoned	D18439 Show error message in Diffusion if branch is not tracked

Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T13075 Plans: Diffusion authors, Herald ref rules, parsing, performance
Open	None	T13277 In repositories, realign "Track Only", "Autoclose", and "Publish/Notify" toward "Permanent Refs"
Wontfix	epriestley	T10964 When a branch in Diffusion is not tracked, the UI should be explicit about it

epriestley edited projects, added Diffusion (v3); removed Diffusion.

chad updated the task description. (Show Details)

epriestley edited projects, added Diffusion; removed Diffusion (v3).

See T13277. I'm moving us away from "Track Only", and our behavior is already reasonable under "Fetch Rules" + "Permanent Refs".

(Branches and tags which are not permanent refs could reasonably show a hint about this, but the behavior should not be misleading.)