Jed Brown writes: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> In mercurial, you'd do 'hg bookmark simp', 'hg push -B simp'. Jed would >> 'hg pull -B simp' and complete the merge. >> > > One notable difference is that a git user does not see these unless they > look for them. You can have hundreds of such branches without a typical > user even knowing about them. In contrast, many normal hg commands show you > these additional heads, often in a way that doesn't scale well.
Oh, also, you wouldn't have to see them in mercurial either. Just 'hg pull -B simp' to pull only those changesets.
