On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In git, the only way to have something in your history is for it to be
> reachable by a ref (for example, a branch name).  When you convert an hg
> repo with a multi-headed branch to git, you can only choose to represent one
> of those heads by a branch name, and the other head will be left stranded,
> which means that it cannot be used normally (for example you cannot push it
> when you push your branch somewhere) and git gc will remove it from your
> repository since it thinks that it's an unneeded commit.

It seems like a hg bookmark could be used to keep a pointer to the
separate heads. This should create the refs you need when using
hg-git. (FWIW, I fully agree that keeping two anonymous heads is
probably a bad idea.)

Cheers,

Dirkjan
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