Bookmarks - Tutorial / Git comparison

[Martin Geisler]

François Gannaz <francois.gannaz at free.fr> writes:

> Le 2010-07-11, ml_alexanderschatten at gmx.at a écrit :
>> I also do not quite understand the comparison with git. As far as I
>> understand, git has the (nice) feature of cheap (feature) branches
>> that can be also removed without "traces". How bookmarks are similar
>> here, I miss to understand.
>
> I'm not an expert at Mercurial, but I think I understood a major
> difference between hg and git: Mercurial prefers workflows that use
> several (cheap) clones.

The Definitive Guide to Mercurial promotes this way of working, but it
is not your only option. It is important to realize that Mercurial has
always supported *multiple light-weight branches* within a single
repository.

Many blog posts describe this as a Git-only feature and fail to realize
that Mercurial supports it too.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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