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Dexygen
Asked: 2010-11-16 08:12:45 +0800 CST

What's the difference between Mercurial's "tip" tag and the "default" branch

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We are just switching to Mercurial where I work this week. I'm starting to read material, and was hoping somebody could succinctly answer this question:

What's the difference between Mercurial's "tip" tag and the "default" branch?

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2 Answers

  1. Tip is the most recent changeset in the repository. Default is a branch. Tip is a special Tag (a named changeset) which always refers to the most recently changed Head.

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  2. Best Answer

    tip can be on a different branch than default.

    hg uses the latest revision your "-r somewhat" matches. if somewhat is a branch, it updates to its latest head. if somewhat is a tag it updates to the revision this tag is associated with.

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