What is a "tip"?

[Kevin Bullock]

On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> I think this is a documentation bug. Consider,
> 
>    jordi at Iris:~$ hg help tip
>    [...]
>        The tip revision (usually just called the tip) is the
>        changeset most recently added to the repository (and therefore
>        the most recently changed head).
> 
> as opposed to
> 
>    jordi at Iris:~$ hg help update
>    [...]
>        Update the repository's working directory to the specified
>        changeset. If no changeset is specified, update to the tip of
>        the current named branch.

I think our recent usage of terminology would have this as "head of the current named branch". Talking about a "branch tip" is something I try not to do because it's confusing.

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Kevin R. Bullock

> My point is that tip says that there is one unique tip, whereas hg
> update says that each branch has a tip. The confusion matters if you
> remember that "hg update" by default updates to tip, but not to the
> global tip that "hg help tip" refers to, but to the latest commit made
> on the current named branch.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.
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