Is it possible to synchronize local/remote repositories without any interaction (i.e. by script)?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 01:46:39PM -0400, Augie Fackler wrote:
>    On Aug 12, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Chris Green <[1]cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > 
> >    These need to be as far as possible silent scripts, as noted above I'm
> >    happy to have them talk to me if there's a conflict of some sort but
> >    otherwise I want quietness.  I can probably manage to make the ssh
> >    access password/key-less but how easy is it to automate the mercurial
> >    bits?
> > 
> Should be pretty easy - `hg push && hg pull` is probably all you need,
> and if either of those exit nonzero you need to do some kind of merge.

So if I make a change on a 'remote' machine and commit it to the local
repository then all I need do is 'push <central repository>' and the
change will be there too?  I thought doing that would create a branch
and that someone/somewhere then had to do a merge on the 'central'
repository.

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Chris Green