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Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

> No I mean if I stick to named branches, than we can stay with bitbucket,
> my colleagues very surprised, even annoyed by the message
>
> «you cannot push because of anonymous heads»

i see. in this case dropbox will just make everything worse for you.
you now have the "push" problem, and the possibility of dropbox
conflicts on mercurial state (the stuff under .hg/) files.

> Without pushing problems, people are ok with mercurial.

see below for using -f.

> That is why dropbox was mentioned.
>
> However this is self-deception at its finest.

:)

> The point is, and I think this is a general phenomena, people in a
> collaboration think they are working strictly sequential, while in fact
> they don't. Because if they worked sequential, then there would be no
> anonymous heads.
>
>
> Mercurial just displays an underlining merging problem, which I am
> afraid a lot of people have difficulties to gasp.
>
> And that is why I think all these dropbox solutions have un noticed
> merging problems

what about having your colleagues always push with -f (hg push -f), and
then the onus is on you to resolve all merges?

cheers!