Heads from merged branches

[Christophe HENRY]

Le Mon, 2 Dec 2013 01:21:01 +0300
anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Christophe HENRY <listes at sbgodin.fr>
> wrote:
> > Le Mon, 2 Dec 2013 00:51:39 +0300
> > anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> >> I am using Mercurial 2.6.3 on Ubuntu. Why it keeps showing me
> >> commit from inactive merged branch in heads? Is it really
> >> necessary, or a bug?
> >
> > You want to view topological heads, that is heads without children.
> > For this, type in: hg head --topo
> >
> > More info with: hg help head
> 
> This is confusing.
> If you need to know about active branches, you use branches command.
> I can understand heads that were not merged back, but why heads shows
> branches that were merged? Is it really necessary to have this
> default behaviour?

I can't see the whole picture. But, as far as I know, branches in Hg
don't die on merge. As the branch info belongs to each commit, even
the last one, merged, still belongs to its branch. As such, it has no
child **inside the branch**.

The workaround is to declare the branch closed in the merge
commit. Using "hg commit --close-branch" will make the branch
disappear from the "hg branch" output. In addition to this, the
command "hg heads --closed" will show the closed branch as well.

-- 
Christophe HENRY
FR EO EN - http://www.sbgodin.fr
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