Just wanted to comment on this to fix any misconceptions. Hg has support for multiple branches in one repo, Mercurial calls those named branches. It's up to individual projects if they want to use this feature vs a separate clone to create a branch.
-----Original Message----- From: Antony Stubbs <antony.stu...@gmail.com> Reply-to: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org> To: dev@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Using GIT as the canonical repository for Maven 3.x Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:57:51 -0700 (PDT) multiple branches in 1 repo (in hg last time i looked you have to create a new copy to checkout a different branch) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any files attached may contain confidential and proprietary information of Alcatel-Lucent and/or its affiliated entities. Access by the intended recipient only is authorized. Any liability arising from any party acting, or refraining from acting, on any information contained in this e-mail is hereby excluded. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, destroy the original transmission and its attachments and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Copyright in this e-mail and any attachments belongs to Alcatel-Lucent and/or its affiliated entities.