Questions about branching in Mercurial

[Tim Allen]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:19:41PM +0200, Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> Hello Tim,
> 
> >Unfortunately, named branches aren't documented very well in "hg help", 
> >and the wiki page isn't much better.
> 
> being a Mercurial newbie myself, I can't help you much, but for some more 
> hints, you could look at the unofficial manual available at 
> <http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbook.pdf>. It's a work in progress, but it 
> has a chapter 8 dealing with branching that also has some named branch 
> examples.

Thank you, I'll look it up.

> There are currently some discussions about strange effects when merging 
> two named branches on the mailinglist, so in your case I would consider to 
> subscribe to the list.

I've been checking the mail archive at http://marc.info/ since it was
recommended on the Mercurial wiki, and sadly it doesn't have that thread
yet. The Mailman archives at selenic.com do record it, and gmane does as
well, so I guess I'll be using gmane in future.

That thread pretty much answers my questions (the consensus seems to be
that named branches aren't useful yet) so I guess I'm done. 

Thanks again!