[ANNOUNCE] new extension: localbranch

[Guido Ostkamp]

Hi Brendan,

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Brendan Cully wrote:
> I've just written a new extension called "localbranch", documented 
> briefly here:
>
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/LocalbranchExtension
>
> Local branches are clones which live inside a repository. That is, they 
> share a working directory. Plain old clones are nice, but the overhead 
> of creating a new working directory can be a drag, and you may have 
> external tools built to use the path to your main repository, which 
> would have to be reconfigured to use a new clone. Local branches avoid 
> these problems.

can you please let us know what the differences between your "localbranch" 
and the regular "branch" inside a repo would be?

I mean with

$ hg branch mybranch
$ hg up -C mybranch

you can already use a branch inside a repo without need to clone a working 
directory at a different location, isn't it?

Regards

Guido