Suffering from CVS mindset

[Yawar Amin]

On 4/11/10 4:00 PM, Greg Ward said:
> [...]
>> $ hg log -b shell |less
>> $ hg log -b perl |less
>> $ hg log -b backups |less
>>     
>
> Just for the record, that is totally *NOT* how named branches are
> supposed to be used.  The canonical use case is this: you have just
>   

Agreed!

> [...]
>
> There are other ways to use named branches, but using them as a
> substitute for subdirectories is just ... weird.  Sounds like
> subversion thinking to me.  ;-)
>   

Sure, except that I don't get how that's like Subversion ... but in any
case, if I want to use named branches like that ... well ... it's really
up to me :-)

Cheers,

 Yawar


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