Cannot create and close a branch in a single commit.

[Jensen, Aaron]

The `hg branch` command only marks the current uncommitted changeset as belonging to a branch. It only creates the branch once you commit.

If you changed your mind and don’t want your testBranch to exist, update to a different revision, then back.


From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian Unger
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 6:57 PM
To: mercurial at selenic.com
Subject: Cannot create and close a branch in a single commit.

Hi Guys,
I expected the following sequence of commands to work. I'm pretty sure they used to work in an earlier version of mercurial. Is this intentional or a regression? If the latter how do I go about raising a bug report for this. If the former, would you consider adding a -f to the commit command that allows this?

REPO=$(mktemp -d)
hg init $REPO
hg branch -R $REPO testBranch
hg ci -R $REPO --close-branch -m "Creating and closing branch."
Result with mercurial 2.6.3 (as shipped with Ubuntu 13.10):
abort: can only close branch heads

Cheers,
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Senior Software Engineer
Tait Communications
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