effective use of in-repository branching

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:54:36PM -0800, Stuart Marks wrote:
> [multiple responses inline]
> 
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > If someone wants to take a stab at this, it should be pretty easy.
> 
> Great. I haven't done any development on hg itself so I don't think this 
> one is for me.

If I had that approach, hg wouldn't exist. You'd be surprised how many
Mercurial contributors had never used Python before writing their
first patch.

> Is there something else I can do, like file a bug? I might 
> be able to help out with doc, too. As far as I can see the branching model 
> is documented pretty sparsely. I had to do a fair bit of experimentation in 
> order to understand it.

Adding to the wiki is always appreciated.

> (At least, I think this case only occurs once during the lifetime of a 
> repo. Once the working copy has a parent, is it ever possible for it to 
> return to a state where it has no parent? I couldn't find any.)

hg co null? I forget if that works.

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