On Feb 26, 2011, at 06:32 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: >>> Named branches are exclusive, they can't be a subset of each other ;) > >Actually, they can. Take the example of the Mercurial repo itself. They >fix bugs in the stable branch and add features in default. When they >merge stable into default and commit, default becomes a superset of >stable. That is to say, someone pulling default also gets the >changesets from stable that are ancestors of the merge changset. Or in >other words, if you check out default, you get all bug fixes from stable.
That makes sense, but correct me if I'm wrong, it's the 'merge' operation that made this happen, right? A merge essentially brings the changesets from one branch into another. -Barry
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
