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wonderercat on Feb 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?

Once again you're demonstrating that you really don't know how to use Mercurial, but feel the need to bash its usability anyway.

   hg update <branchname>

will do exactly what you want. It's even the same command as in SVN.

guard-of-terra on Feb 24, 2012 [–]

I change a file.

do

hg update default

get:

abort: crosses branches (merge branches or use --clean to discard changes)

So?

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