hg heads command inconsistant?

Hans Meine meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Tue Jan 19 10:41:54 CST 2010


On Friday 08 January 2010 10:13:33 Alexander Schatten wrote:
> I have the impression, unless there is a serious misunderstanding of
>  "heads" on my side, that there is a significant inconsistency with the "hg
>  heads" command. [... using --close-branch] Now, still "hg heads" shows two
>  heads, and what is disturbing, even when called with "hg heads --active".

This was discussed several times on the list, and I still consider it to be a 
bug, usability-wise.  (I'd like to use --close-branch for real work and would 
like to see support for this in more hg UIs, but I never use named branches.)

The workaround is to use "hg heads default".

HTH,
  Hans


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