bazaar/mercurial meeting

[Michael Ellerman]

On 5/23/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> | Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> | I didn't realize that hg had repositories. Though I guess I just found
> | out that with 'clone -U' you can prevent it from 'updating the working
> | directory' ie, don't create a working dir.
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> This is that "multi-head" thing people kept talking about, with a
> working tree that had several branches in it.  It sounded crackful in
> those terms, but in Bzr terms, it's a repository with a working tree at
> its root.

Call it what you will, I still think it's crackful. Git does this and
it makes my head hurt, I'm constantly checking which head I actually
have checked out. I don't think it's a model we should encourage.

cheers