Questions about branching in Mercurial

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:30:04AM +1000, Tim Allen wrote:
> > There are currently some discussions about strange effects when merging 
> > two named branches on the mailinglist, so in your case I would consider to 
> > subscribe to the list.
> 
> I've been checking the mail archive at http://marc.info/ since it was
> recommended on the Mercurial wiki, and sadly it doesn't have that thread
> yet. The Mailman archives at selenic.com do record it, and gmane does as
> well, so I guess I'll be using gmane in future.
> 
> That thread pretty much answers my questions (the consensus seems to be
> that named branches aren't useful yet) so I guess I'm done. 

They've still got a couple rough edges that should be polished up in
the next couple months, but I think they're perfectly useful today
provided you understand how they work.

I haven't been recommending them to people simply because most people
who are new to distributed systems seem to get themselves confused
enough without them. One working directory = one repository = one
branch is the simplest place to start.

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