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From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] New remote-hg helper
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:28:27 +0000
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Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> writes:

> The first is really a symptom of a general difference between hg and git: an hg
> repository can have multiple heads, whereas a git repo has exactly one head.

By this I mean an hg repository without bookmarks or branches can still have
multiple heads, whereas a git branch points at exactly one place. Sorry,
very vague description there!

Cheers,

Chris.