>> Can we just use default for trunk and py3k?  For the time when both
>> trunk and py3k were active, it would create two unnamed branches on the
>> default branch, but one merge would solve that.
> 
> IMO, a dummy merge at the tip of the default branch may confuse users
> looking at the history, especially if they try a graphical display of
> the DAG (e.g. "hg glog" or the graph page in the Web UI).

The dummy merge would not stay long: The commits targeted at 3.3 would
be its children.

> Besides, it would precisely make it harder to distinguish between
> trunk and py3k development at the time both took place in parallel.

IIUC, there would be two parallel lines of history (unnnamed branches).
 Would that be hard to read?

Regards
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