Re: Newbie grief
- From
- Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
- Date
- May 3, 2012, 16:08 UTC
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- <67e635d73b952088917d197cbbd06684@ulrik.uio.no>
- In-Reply-To
- <5ADB8D763B2B4CDA889052A1AA45F089@PhilipOakley>
Philip Oakley wrote:
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> A bit of browsing found > http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/ > which helped with some of the confusion about the different meanings > of "branch". It looks like an Hg branch is a Git clone. Git can be > hard work until one 'gets' how and why the new DVCS approach works. > Plus learing the UI.
Aha, now this thread finally makes some sense. So when Rich wants a "branch" with several tips, he actually wants several Git clones (repositories) with the same Git branch checked out - and some of them with local commits to it.
And these commits can be shared as remote branches between the clones, which in Hg-speak means that in one particular clone, Git will "bookmark" the other clones' tips.
-- Hallvard