Problem with Mercurial and Branches

[Bill Barry]

Christian Krebs wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:48:55 +0100, Bill Barry 
> <after.fallout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The easiest way to handle this is to have a repository that only ever 
>> contains b1; I think you could do this:
>> cd local-path
>> hg clone -r b1 copy b1copy
>
> Thanks, this actually seems to work very well with the real project to 
> split up the named branches to "real" branches.
>
>
>
I like to keep them named still because it makes it easier to figure out 
where the change is from. We use a process similar to what I think you 
are doing when managing our modifications to third party sources.