A Guide to Branching in Mercurial

[niels]

http://stevelosh.com/blog/entry/2009/8/30/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/

[runningskull]

Wow. This is a great guide. The diagrams really help in understanding, and the writing is clear.

Thanks for putting in the time to help others. Keep up the good work.

[jonke]

Quite good but for those not used to Mercurial I hear the words of Linus "branching is easy, merging is hard" about svn so the article really need a second chapter of howto merge those Anonymously Branches.

[stevelosh → jonke]

A guide to merging is an interesting idea, but it wouldn't necessarily be similar to this guide. This guide was about the different branching workflows/models in Mercurial, but there's only one merging model.

It could be useful to diagram out the concepts used in that single model though, so it's something I'll keep in mind for a rainy day when I have some free time.

[spahl]

Another very useful way to manage features that aren't finished are mercurial queues. They can sometimes offer more flexibility than branches.

[stevelosh]

I'm glad people are finding this useful. If there's anything I've missed please point it out here on in a comment on the entry itself.