[Scons-dev] HG questions

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 10:03:13 PM anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote
> > You can use the hg branch command to mark totally unrelated changesets in
> > a
> > repository as belonging to the same branch.  IMO, that makes it weird.
> 
> Does "unrelated" means with no common parent? I don't know - never practiced
> such scenario. Have you tried it?

Just did.

flacy at flacy:/tmp/test$ hg log -G
@  changeset:   3:d7847d5e53ce
|  branch:      barf
|  tag:         tip
|  user:        Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
|  date:        Wed Jul 23 19:07:06 2014 -0500
|  summary:     Updated bleep
|
o  changeset:   2:0179ff773bd4
|  user:        Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
|  date:        Wed Jul 23 19:05:43 2014 -0500
|  summary:     Added ferd.
|
o  changeset:   1:048e8dd9c8ec
|  branch:      barf
|  user:        Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
|  date:        Wed Jul 23 19:03:57 2014 -0500
|  summary:     Added fred
|
o  changeset:   0:8fa3c48321c8
   user:        Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net>
   date:        Wed Jul 23 19:02:21 2014 -0500
   summary:     added bleep


I toggled the branch between default and barf between each commit.

I'll admit that I had to use "-f" to make this happen (so that's an 
improvement from my memory), but you can still do it.  That's with hg 2.7.2.


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Mark A. Flacy