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Re: branch description

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2008, 05:27 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> Please, let's don't repeat Mercurial mistake of placing unversioned
> information (such as branch names in case of Mercurial, or branches
> descriptions in this case) in-tree, i.e. version it.
Is it really a "mistake" in Mercurial's context?

I thought that their named branches do have defined "starting point", and it is not a mistake at all for them to version "from this point on, this lineage of history is associated with this symbolic name (which is a branch)".

It probably does not make sense in the context of git where a branch is defined to be "illusion" (at least currently).

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