From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 16:08:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie grief
Message-ID: <67e635d73b952088917d197cbbd06684@ulrik.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <5ADB8D763B2B4CDA889052A1AA45F089@PhilipOakley>

 Philip Oakley wrote:
> 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