Branches and Heads

[Russell Suter]

All,

<Sorry about the crosspost -- I meant to send to devel only/>

If I create a branch on a branch it appears that there is only
one head for both branches -- the head is on the second branch.

10
|
+--11 (branch 1)
     |
     +--12 (branch 2) (head) (tip)

If I set back to branch 1, the branch command reports that I'm
on branch 1 as expected but the revision is revision 12 even if
I do an update -C.  If I update to revision 11 and commit a change
(creating revision 13) the heads command will show that I have
two heads:

10
|
+--11--13 (head)(tip)
     |
     +--12 (head)

What I would expect is that revision 11 stays the head of branch 1
even when branch 2 / revision 12 is created.  Also, when I go back
to branch 1 and update, I get revision 11.

To complicate matters, if I do this in a clone of a parent repository,
when I go to push revision 13, It aborts with the "push creates new
remote branches!" message.

Apologies if this has been discussed earlier..

Regards

--
Russ