On 27 February 2011 03:02, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Committing reopened it > > So what's the point of closing it, then? What effect does that > achieve? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4099345/is-it-possible-to-reopen-a-closed-branch-in-mercurial/4101279#4101279 The closed flag is just used to filter out closed branches from hg branches and hg heads unless you use the --closed option - it doesn't prevent you from using the branches. Basically, it reduces the noise, especially if you have very branchy development like I personally prefer (a named branch per task/issue). If you only use anonymous branches, except for your feature branches (e.g. 3.2, 2.7) then you'd probably never close a branch. Tim Delaney
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