[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> Le samedi 26 février 2011 à 08:38 -0800, Daniel Stutzbach a écrit :
> > Can we just get rid of "trunk" altogether?  It's history is a strict
> > subset of the 2.7 branch's history, isn't it?
>
> Named branches are exclusive, they can't be a subset of each other ;)
> (in other words: 2.7 starts where trunk stops; trunk changesets are
> strict ancestors of 2.7)
>

Maybe I don't fully understand how Mercurial branches work or how it defines
terminology (in fact, that is likely :) ).  What's the difference between
the statement "trunk changesets are strict ancestors of 2.7" and the
statement "trunk's history is a strict subset of 2.7's history"?

-- 
Daniel Stutzbach
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