[Python-Dev] Hg: inter-branch workflow

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

"Martin v. Löwis" writes:

 > Not if the changes you want to suppress are actually also on the same
 > branch as the one whose mainline you are trying to see (which they
 > typically are, with the branch typically being "default").

There is no "also on" with Mercurial named branches.  Every commit is
on exactly one named branch, and that include both branch and merge
nodes.