How to use Mercurial?

Jon Ribbens jon-mercurial at unequivocal.co.uk
Fri Apr 9 15:27:51 CDT 2010


On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:28:05PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Michael Ekstrand <michael at elehack.net> writes:
> 
> > For me, it isn't a different working practice so much as a mindset
> > change.  If you follow the rule that you never have a dirty working dir
> > while merging, then a copy your work is always saved before you merge.
> 
> Just a noob trying to follow along here.  OP sounds like stuff I might
> run into.
> 
> Can anyone define a little more precisely what is meant by the term
> `dirty' in this context?

I was using it to mean a working directory that contains changes that
are not checked in yet.


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