
I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")? Thx, Skip

On Oct 31, 2016, at 15:20, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")?
hg update -C v2.6.9 -- Ned Deily nad@python.org -- []

On Oct 31, 2016, at 15:25, Ned Deily <nad@python.org> wrote:
To expand a bit, that command will update to the 2.6.9 release. You don't see a 2.6 branch because it has been marked as closed. hg branches -c will show all branches. hg update -C 2.6 will update to the latest head of the 2.6 branch but that should essentially be the same as the tag v2.6.9. hg help branches -- Ned Deily nad@python.org -- []

Cool, thanks to Ned and Zach. Hg never gets allocated very many neurons in my brain. Then there's the whole brain-in-neutral aspect of things which makes me fail to consider there might be help and/or closed branches which aren't displayed... Sorry for the distraction. Skip

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
2.6 is a closed branch, which pretty much only means it doesn't show up in `hg branches`. Use `hg branches -c` to see it (beware that if you use the 'color' extension, the branch name may still be invisible due to coloring). -- Zach

On Oct 31, 2016, at 15:20, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
I need to do a little 2.6 spelunking. I don't see a 2.6 branch in the output of "hg branches". Is "hg clone v2.6.9" the proper incantation to get the latest version (or perhaps "v2.6")?
hg update -C v2.6.9 -- Ned Deily nad@python.org -- []

On Oct 31, 2016, at 15:25, Ned Deily <nad@python.org> wrote:
To expand a bit, that command will update to the 2.6.9 release. You don't see a 2.6 branch because it has been marked as closed. hg branches -c will show all branches. hg update -C 2.6 will update to the latest head of the 2.6 branch but that should essentially be the same as the tag v2.6.9. hg help branches -- Ned Deily nad@python.org -- []

Cool, thanks to Ned and Zach. Hg never gets allocated very many neurons in my brain. Then there's the whole brain-in-neutral aspect of things which makes me fail to consider there might be help and/or closed branches which aren't displayed... Sorry for the distraction. Skip

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
2.6 is a closed branch, which pretty much only means it doesn't show up in `hg branches`. Use `hg branches -c` to see it (beware that if you use the 'color' extension, the branch name may still be invisible due to coloring). -- Zach
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