Named branches

[Alpár Jüttner]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 06:29 -0400, Sean Russell wrote:

> For what it is worth, in all other revision control systems I've ever worked 
> with, either you have to specifically tell it which branch you want to check 
> out, or it defaults to "trunk":

That's good. However the concept of 'local clone' is unknown in all of
the VC systems you mentioned.

My very basic usability problem was that if I check out a branch (by
explicitly give the name of it, of course), then I have a repository
containing _only_ that branch. Then, when I do local clones of it (which
is supposed to be an everyday (in fact, everyhour) process using HG), I
would like to remain on the same branch and on the tip of it.

Once again. In this case the source repository contains a single branch,
it does not contain the 'default' branch. Technically, it is inactive. 

So, what I get is a tip of nothing, neither of the 'default' branch, nor
of the the active one.

Best regards,
Alpar

P.S. Matt, could you specify, how many posts per month will trigger a
"shut up" notice like the one Patrik got a couple of days ago? I really
want to avoid getting one, but I'm afraid I'm approaching to that
limit. :)