inactive branches? (simple question)

[Pradeepkumar Gayam]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  hg branches
> test11                        21:3269769d1cf6
> constrained_value             19:77cd62e886f3 (inactive)
> vector                        17:e35e7ce4d791 (inactive)
> traits                        15:1a8365415e86 (inactive)
> multiarray                    13:9e88a14b2b8f (inactive)
> mersenne                      11:d8e0b3807029 (inactive)
> BUILD                          9:2f786d2ec31d (inactive)
> user-config                    7:4cd7e52c8046 (inactive)
> hgignore                       5:2ad1a7301aa9 (inactive)
> default                        3:aa67a6883458 (inactive)
>
> What does 'inactive' mean?
>

I think all those branches have been merged to into other branches, they
don't really have heads. If we update to any of those branches and make a
commit then it becomes active. If branch has latest changeset and not merged
into other branches then it is active. Heads(latest changeset) of the
inactive branch is ancestor of one of the changeset of active branch.

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