terminology confusion: bookmark vs named head

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso jordigh at octave.org
Wed Dec 18 10:01:24 CST 2013


On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 18:09 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> That's because "fixes" is a descendant of "master". These bookmarks
> are not intuitive, and even more confusing with 'hg up'.

They are not intuitive to git users, because they've moulded their
"intuition" on git. They even insist on calling it a "merge" when
there is absolutely nothing being merged.

What you call "intuition" I call perversion. However, this perversion
is now widespread since git is widespread.

- Jordi G. H.




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