Hi,

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that Mercurial did not 
> attempt to merge. Rather, it created a new branch head in the remote 
> repository.

So this is the "detached HEAD" idea.  Which contradicts the law of the 
least surprise.

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> Clearly users are confused about pushing into a checked-out branch. 
> Maybe making that impossible by default will be enough.

It should be clear that the equivalent of a central repository is a bare 
repository.  And hopefully Junio's strategy will make that clearer, so I 
think this is the superior approach.

Ciao,
Dscho

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