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glandium on June 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitFlow considered harmful

Mercurial branches are not meant to be used for short-lived feature branches, though. As "hg branch" puts it: "branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?".

giulianob on June 20, 2015 [–]

You can close a branch and it will not show up as being active but you still have the info for every commit which is what makes history readable.

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