hg switch

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 13:17:04 CDT 2014


http://git-legit.org/

$ git switch <branch>
# Switches to branch. Stashes and restores unstaged changes.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1156152/how-do-i-switch-with-mercurial
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2159623/how-can-i-switch-to-a-tag-branch-in-hg
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4061666/switching-between-mercurial-branches

?

The reasons I came back to this is:
 - intuitive interface is intuitive
 - IIRC, 'hg up' refuses to jump across branches
   if there are uncommitted (unstaged) changes

Straightforward reflection of intentions in command
interface is a corner stone of good user experience.

CC, please.
-- 
anatoly t.


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