"named branches" vs "bookmarks" FUD

[anatoly techtonik]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca> wrote:
> On 03 January 2014, anatoly techtonik said:
>> I am not comfortable that other people still recommend to stay away from
>> Mercurial named branches without ability to explain why. I am also not
>> an authority to convince them, even though you message helps.
>
> Last time I checked, Matt does not have the power to edit any web page
> on the Internet. I'm sure if he did, he'd be just thrilled to spend
> his days correcting crappy blog posts and clueless answers on
> stackoverflow.com. (Sarcasm alert!)
>
> I don't think you can get any more definitive a statement on Mercurial
> than a message from Matt Mackall to mercurial at selenic.com. So if you
> see people making misleading/inaccurate statements about named
> branches, why not refer to them to Matt's message?

Good point. I believe Google picked this up already. ;)