[PATCH] named branches: --newbranch option to allow intial push of new branches

[Henrik Stuart]

timeless wrote:
> if upstream has:
> 
> 1 -> 2
> 
> and I have:
> 
> 1 -> 2
>    \
>      3 ("a") -> 4
>          \
>            5
> 
> Can I use hg push --newbranch to push 3,4,5 ?

Yes.

> if upstream has:
> 
> 1 -> 2
> 
> and I have:
> 
> 1 -> 2 -> 3 ("a")
>    \
>      4 ("b")
> 
> can I use hg push --newbranch b to push 4?

No, newbranch does not take any arguments. Your command would try to
push to the repository in the b directory.

> and if i just do hg push --newbranch does it push 3 and 4?
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Sune Foldager<sune.foldager at edlund.dk> wrote:
>> +                    self.ui.status(_("(use push --newbranch to create new remote branch)\n"))
> 
> you either want "new remote branches" or "a new remote branch". The
> answers to the questions above would indicate which...

The correct one is "new remote branches".

-- 
Kind regards,
  Henrik Stuart