Re: [opensuse-factory] New package: hg-fast-export

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Guido Berhoerster wrote:

* Michal Vyskocil [2011-09-15 14:26]:

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But sometimes it's very suprising for me. For example when I learned about a fact, that local branches are not supported by default

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Branch http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LocalBranches http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LocalbranchExtension

or you cannot easy delete your topic named branch you made and did not publish http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PruningDeadBranches

It is possible to get similar behavior with stock Mercurial, you just don't use named branches for that since they're conceptually different from git's branches. With hg bookmarks you can probably get very close to a git-like workflow with short-lived feature branches. If a branch is very short-lived and you don't need to switch around you could even use an anonymous branch (i.e. by just comitting to a particular revision). A third alternative would be to use mq which allows for easy rebasing and editing of changes before turing them into permanent commits.

Hi Guido, that sounds what I wanted to have before - however now as I have all my mercurial repositories locally in git, I will stay in git as I'm much familiar with it. Regards Michal Vyskocil