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Dave F
Dave F

Reputation: 983

Mystery branch in Mercurial

I'm a little new to using Mercurial but so far I really like it. Recently though I've noticed I've managed to create a branch somehow, but I'm not sure how it's happened. Now when I do:

hg branches

I get:

default                      167:e1ca9e2a5efc

With the second one appearing to update at each commit. What could have happened here, and can I get rid of it?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 101

Answers (1)

pconcepcion
pconcepcion

Reputation: 5641

You have not created a branch, that's the default branch of your repository, and the second part is just a reference to the entry of your repository corresponding to that branch, as it's the default one, it's updated to the last commit always.

With hg branch you can see the current branch name, if you try, you will see that you are working on the default branch. You can use hg branch BRANCH_NAME to change to branch BRANC_NAME.

Upvotes: 3

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