Re: Newbie grief

 On Thu, 03 May 2012 11:20:56 -0700, Rich Pixley [off-list ref] 
 wrote:

On 5/3/12 09:08 , Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:

quoted

  Aha, now this thread finally makes some sense.  So when Rich
  wants a "branch" with several tips, he actually wants several
  Git clones (repositories) with the same Git branch checked out -
  and some of them with local commits to it.

Yes.

quoted

  And these commits can be shared as remote branches between the
  clones, which in Hg-speak means that in one particular clone,
  Git will "bookmark" the other clones' tips.

Well, no.  In hg, these are all managed.  So there's no scaling
issue.  They can all push/pull together, since they are really all
just one shared branch.  Adding a new repository to the mix is
trivial.  And either pushes or pulls can be used, or any combo.

With git, I must manually make space for each and every repository,
manually track which set of changes are where, manually track which
need to be merged, and manually track which repositories are looking
at which git branches so that they don't collide, or only collide in
the current repository and only when I'm prepared to merge them.
(...)

 If you say so.  I don't know Hg and I'm not about to try to guess
 if you're stuck in another misconception about Git or not, nor
 to re-read this entire thread substituting "clone" for "branch".

 Anyway, I notice you're now giving practical Hg examples to go
 with your Hg vocabulary instead talking Git in Hg vocabulary, so
 hopefully this'll get cleared up.

 Anyway, if you have not done so already: If you show this too with
 a practical Hg example instead of talking Git in a Hg vocabulary,
 maybe someone can help.

-- 
 Hallvard