a "patch tree" instead of a patch queue?

[Martin Geisler]

Ted Pavlic <ted at tedpavlic.com> writes:

> [...]
>
> Finally, as I mentioned before, I'm pretty sure that **git** has
> better support for this than Mercurial. That is, git effectively lets
> you name (i.e., "tag") an entire branch (rather than the changeset at
> its root). Then you can quickly jump to the most recent changeset in
> that branch.

I don't know git... but I believe that a "named branch" in Mercurial
lets you do what you describe: tag a bunch of changesets with some name.
People describe it as a floating tag that points to the tip of the
branch. See the wiki:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/NamedBranches

-- 
Martin Geisler

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