[Python-Dev] of branches and heads

[Greg Ewing]

From: Antoine Pitrou
> - a "branch" usually means a "named branch": a set of changesets
>   bearing the same label (e.g. "default"); that label is freely chosen
>   by the committer at any point, and enforces no topological
>   characteristic

There are *some* topological restrictions, because hg won't
let you assign a branch name that's been used before to a node
unless one of its parents has that name. So you can't create
two disconnected subgraphs whose nodes have the same branch
name.

-- 
Greg

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