On 10.09.2009 17:08, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
...
>>> If you have Gtk+ and PyGtk innstalled, you probably might even
>>> be able to run from source:
>> Do I really want to tempt fate?
>>
>> Okay, installed gtk+ bundle 2.16.5-20090731_win32.zip and
>> pygtk-2.12.1-3.win32-py2.5.exe...
>>
>>> hg clone http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/ thg-stable
>>> cd thg-stable
>>> hg up stable
>> I'm a hg newbie, why on earth do I have to do this having just cloned?!

Cool, welcome! (in response to telling us that you are new to hg)

(sorry that TortoiseHg didn't work out of the box for you)

> When you clone, hg checks out the 'default' branch.  Unless you like
> living on our cutting edge, it's best to switch to the stable branch.

The "stable" in the url http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable probably
adds to the confusion...

Historically, that url contained really only the stable line of development.
Then we (ok, rather Steve :) decided to ditch the then separate "unstable" repo
in bitbucket, and to use one combined repo for both lines, by employing
mercurial's named branches feature (the driving factor was dogfooding
named branches).

The "unstable" (or main) line of development lives in the named branch
"default". That branch name exists by default in every hg repo
(see 'hg help branch'). Its name is omitted in 'hg log' output.

The "stable" line of development (bugfixes of last major release)
lives in the named branch with the name "stable" (by decision of the thg
project).

Switching between the two in a repo can be done with

hg update stable
hg update default


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