[Python-Dev] 2.6 branch in Mercurial?

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 15:34:34 EDT 2016


On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Skip Montanaro
<skip.montanaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output
> of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the
> latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")?

2.6 is a closed branch, which pretty much only means it doesn't show
up in `hg branches`.  Use `hg branches -c` to see it (beware that if
you use the 'color' extension, the branch name may still be invisible
due to coloring).

-- 
Zach


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