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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Antoine Pitrou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net">solipsis@pitrou.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
There is no such thing as an "unnamed branch". What would "hg branches"<br>
show? An empty space?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I understand now why I was confused.  I had previously read the sentence "Both Git and Mercurial support unnamed local branches." at <a href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BranchingExplained">http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/BranchingExplained</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>But as I dig deeper, I see that there is only one unnamed branch, and it actually does have an implicit name: "default".</div><div><br></div><div>It appears Mercurial supports at least three different kinds of branching: cloning (similar to Bazaar), bookmarks (similar to git), and named branches. Â So a named branch can contain more than one branch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Were there reasons for going with named branches over bookmarks? Â PEP 385 discusses only cloning and named branches. Â I'm just curious, not trying to start a long discussion. :-)</div></div><br>-- <br>
Daniel Stutzbach<br>
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