elmentary (watson): merge (named) branches and/or bookmarks

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Bob Hood writes:

> On 12/17/2016 2:56 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Sorry for such an elementary question again, but bookmarks drive my
>> crazy.
>
> Coming from Subversion, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the paradigm 
> as well, until I realized one day that named branches in Mercurial are just 
> /permanent bookmarks/. Like regular bookmarks, they automatically follow a 
> head as commits are made, but the head they are tracking is /just never meant 
> to be merged back into their parent branch/--hence,

What do you mean by that?

It’s regular usage to merge a branch back into the parent branch.

Best wishes,
Arne
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