[non topological heads] (was: resolved data corruption with convert, now I can't push)

[Becker, Mischa J]

From: Matt Harbison
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2017 9:58 PM

> On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:56:47 -0400, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
>> Also it confuses me that when pushing hg complains about rev
>> c698c52f6a03! That is a head but not a topological one.
>> I thought I understand the graphs and the heads but I don't. Is the
>> non topological head harmful?
>
> I don't understand.  `hg help glossary` says a topological head is a commit with no children.
> How can something be a head but not a topological head?

That would be a revision that has children with a different branch name.  You merged branch A into branch B or you started a new branch B from the head of your original branch A.  Until you go back to that branch A head and add another commit, branch A doesn't have a topological head.

Mischa

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