On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:55:03 +0200 Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello, > > In 5.6.26, one can read about Vcs-<type>: > > "In the case of Git, the value consists of a URL, optionally followed by > the word -b the name of a branch in the indicated repository, following > the syntax of the git clone command". > > It would be useful to have the same for Hg, for instance: > > "In the case of Git and Hg, the value consists of a URL, optionally > followed by the word -b the name of a branch in the indicated > repository, following the syntax of the git clone and hg clone > commands".
Actually, with hg there’s not much need for this since the native hg URL format supports specifying the branch to check out in a URL fragment: https://server.org/path/to/repo#branch. -- Cheers, Andrej
