<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 February 2011 03:02, "Martin v. Löwis" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
> Committing reopened it<br>
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So what's the point of closing it, then? What effect does that<br>
achieve?</blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4099345/is-it-possible-to-reopen-a-closed-branch-in-mercurial/4101279#4101279">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4099345/is-it-possible-to-reopen-a-closed-branch-in-mercurial/4101279#4101279</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The closed flag is just used to filter out closed branches from hg branches and hg heads unless you use the --closed option - it doesn't prevent you from using the branches.</div><div><br></div><div>
Basically, it reduces the noise, especially if you have very branchy development like I personally prefer (a named branch per task/issue). If you only use anonymous branches, except for your feature branches (e.g. 3.2, 2.7) then you'd probably never close a branch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tim Delaney</div></div>