[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Éric Araujo]

>> Named branches are exclusive, they can't be a subset of each other ;)

Actually, they can.  Take the example of the Mercurial repo itself. They
fix bugs in the stable branch and add features in default.  When they
merge stable into default and commit, default becomes a superset of
stable.  That is to say, someone pulling default also gets the
changesets from stable that are ancestors of the merge changset.  Or in
other words, if you check out default, you get all bug fixes from stable.

HTH