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.

1 comment:

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

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