} I had a few proposals over the years, but I won't even bother to dig
} them up, because there's quite recent and promising work in this
} area from Derrick Stolee:
It sounds like the best thing to do is to wait for this, then.
We managed to convert a bunch of our branches to tags, so our
immediate problem has been resolved. But I'm sure it will come up
again as more branches are created...
carig