> > > Can I make a /tmp branch from the hg read-only branch that is not tied > > > to the svn /tmp branches.
> > Why do you want to do that? > > > > Mercurial is a fully distributed system, so you could just start > > committing to one of your local copies of the repository, and I can't > > see anything missing that a /tmp branch would give you. > Same reason you do an SVN tmp branch. So others (outside of my > employer's WAN) can actually clone the branch and try it out before you > push it back to the repository. Mercurial is a fully distributed system. So instead of thinking of /tmp branch, you should think of publishing your repository, which has your commits in it. As I understand it, open-mpi.org is not set up for publishing other repositories yet, but it is quite easy to set up a mercurial server; there are also several places that will host one for you: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MercurialHosting - R.
