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Re: Please help with Mercurial Bookmarks workflow

by Martin Geisler-4 :: Rate this Message:

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amaslov <amaslov.p@...> writes:

> Arne,
>
>   Thanks for the explanation, though I still do not get the idea...
> What's the point in having local branches and syncing them with
> other repositories by default? I have created them to be local,
> haven't I? Mercurial has named branches which are shared...

You can make *clones* which are truely local.

They also give you better separatation between different ongoing
changes since you have a working directory for each clone whereas all
your branches by necessity share the same working directory.

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Martin Geisler

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SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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