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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Mercurial whine: 
hg merge -r tip
is NOT the same as 
hg merge -r default
Because Mercurial's tip may be on a branch. tip is just the most recent changeset, anywhere. I have hit bugs caused by following hg recipes that talk about using -r tip. Sigh.
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Wayne said...

Tag this as version-control to be consistent with your other posts.

1/19/2012 3:03 a.m.

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