hg up branchname surprise

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:39:31PM +0100, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just experimented with named branches, Hg 0.9.2.
> 
> I noticed that "hg up <branchname>" will silently update to the most
> recent head of the given branch, even if the branch has multiple heads.
> 
> This surprised me.  I would expect a diagnostic if the branch has
> multiple heads.
> 
> Is the behavior intended?

Yes. It's analogous to the behavior of "hg up" which takes you to tip
even if you have multiple heads.

What's missing is something like 'hg heads <branch>' which finds all
the heads of a given branch.

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