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Re:Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab by CaptainRefsmat on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:57AM (#24294297)
> Is there a good definitive guide somewhere on the best workflows for hg?

I don't know about workflows specifically, but there is a very good reference [0] about Mercurial's branching models. Maybe this will help you.

[0] https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-m...

Re:Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab by rich_sasha on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:33PM (#24295386)
Thanks for this. This is fairly old now though, and doesn't even mention bookmarks (which I understand to be like git branches, except they aren't (?) synched between repo copies. Then there's some new stuff that apparently are very good, but I can't find a proper description of how they work / should be used.
Re:Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab by BeetleB on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:57PM (#24296507)
> This is fairly old now though, and doesn't even mention bookmarks.

What do you mean? It has a section on it:

https://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-m...

(I have not audited to see how accurate the information is, though).

> Then there's some new stuff that apparently are very good, but I can't find a proper description of how they work / should be used.

Yes - I often wished that someone wrote and maintained an article listing all the extensions that one likely will want to use.[1] One you may want to look into is evolve.

[1] Maybe someone has written this - I haven't checked in the last few years.

Re:Heptapod – Mercurial for Gitlab by rich_sasha on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:00PM (#24297291)
Ah my bad, missed it, you’re right.