alt Hacker NewsI hated so much how Mercurial dealt with short-lived branches, that after seeing how Git did it, I've never looked back. I also remember how some people told me to use the quilt or something extension to manage patches, but it was too complicated for me.
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irishcoffee • today at 12:58 AM
What does short lives branches even mean? Make a branch, close it, or merge it.
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It make a lot of sense if you think of repo history as properly immutable, and dispose of the notion that brach is a first class object in the git sense. Bookmakers just pin a checkin hash to a name, and you can have many heads in an hg branch.