unexpected behavior pushing to repo w/ more than one branch

[Faheem Mitha]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:22:16 -0400, Diab Jerius <dj at head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I'm confused by the following behavior:
>
> I have a repo with two branches.  If I clone the repo, make changes,
> then try to push the changes, hg complains about creating a new branch
> in the master repo:

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> I don't see why it should create a new branch. If instead I pull from
> the master, it doesn't complain, and doesn't create another branch.

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> This is the behavior I'd expect from a push.
>
> If I push with -f, I also don't get another branch.
>
> If I strip off the older branch from both repos, the push is performed
> without complaint.
>
> Am I missing something?

No. I think this is 

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue179

Only seems to show up with multi-headed repositories.

                                              Faheem.