bookmarks and branches again: files

[Kevin Bullock]

> On Jul 13, 2016, at 03:18, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, as expected, you have the commit formerly bookmarked 'master'
>> checked out (which by the way in hg should be spelled '@' instead).
> 
> Why, I think I have read this somewhere, that @ is recommended but why?

Because '@' means the same thing to Mercurial that 'master' means to Git: it's the bookmark that gets automatically checked out when you clone a repo, whether or not it's on the tip of a branch.

Just as Subversion has 'trunk' and Git has 'master' and named branches have 'default', bookmarks have '@'.

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