Sapling Commands

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Sapling (the Facebook-released SCM) is great, but the docs are not-great.
I thought I’d list some commands it took me a while to undertand, for me and for others

Create remote tag

sl push --to tags/v0.0.5

Where v0.0.5 is the tag name.
The “remote” is because there are no local tags in Sapling

Delete remote branch

sl push --delete main default

Where “main” is the name of the branch, and “default” is the path (aka origin in git-talk)

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