Setting the branch on which an mq patch is applied

[Martin Geisler]

Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> we have recently had a discussion on the tortoisehg developers mailing
> list regarding mq and branches.
>
> The discussion started when I asked whether there is a way to select
> the branch in which an mq is applied. By default mq automatically
> applis patches on the same branch as the parent revision.
>
> As far as we can tell there is no way to tell mq to apply the patch
> into a different branch through its command line interface. Instead it
> seems that if you want to change the branch of an mq patch you must
> call "hg branch" prior to calling hg qpush, hg qrefresh or hg qnew.
>
> Is this the recommended solution?

Yes, this is same way you choose the branch name for the next commit.

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