On 2013-09-06 17:51, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > I found this guide [1] very useful back in the time I tried to grok > Mercurial. > > 1. > http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/ Indeed, after reading it, that's the most sense I've been able to make of Mercurial's strange branching. I guess it boils down to the following rough heuristic: - if you want to dink around locally, but don't want to publish your branches (yet), default to bookmarks using "hg bookmark" - once you want a branch to be public, consider making a "real" branch using "hg branch" - if you want complete isolation in case you screw up something like merging, use a clone I still prefer Git's way, but at least I'm not left scratching my head when I have to play with Mercurial branches. Thanks, all. -tkc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html