[Python-Dev] hg branching + log question

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014, at 13:02, Sean Felipe Wolfe wrote:
> I'm getting my feet wet with the cpython sources and Mercurial. I'm a
> bit confused -- when I checkout a branch, eg. 3.3, and I do an 'hg
> log', why do I see log messages for other branches?

That's just the way Mercurial works. If you only want to see messages on
the current branch, do "hg log -b .".

> 
> I'm expecting different branches to be kept discreetly. If I switch to
> 3.3, then I expect to see only 3.3 commits and changes.
> 
> Also, what does the branch 'default' mean in this context? Since
> cpython is concerned with 3 major concurrent release tracks, why would
> there even be a default ? Does it just point to 3.4?

It's what will become 3.5 as of today.