Does anyone use named branches?

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 16:31 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>  
>         Judging from traffic on this list and on -devel, _lots_ of
>         people use
>         them.
> 
> 
> Hmm. They're just this close to being completely awesome, in my
> estimation, save for that clone-then-update business. Am I missing
> some reason why that is actually good? 

I won't claim its' good; it's design fallout. However, it's not any
different from the SVN or CVS systems people are used to which both have
a default checkout branch.

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