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On 05/27/2011 10:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<alpine.DEB.2.00.1105272251580.1610@urchin.earth.li>, Tom
> Anderson wrote:
>> $ hg update 0
>
> So this command has started a new branch?
>
> In Git, every branch has a name.

No, hg update goes to that revision. I think the git equivalent is git 
checkout (bizarrely named, if you ask me).

hg branches have names, although branch names are a property of the 
changeset and not the repository (which makes git hard for me to use, 
having used hg for 6-odd years).

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth