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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by sampo on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:54AM (#7385558)
> In mercurial you have Branches and Bookmarks. In git you just have branches.

I think git branches correspond more to hg bookmarks, than to hg named branches.

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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by Skinney on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @12:55PM (#7386773)
Isn't the only real difference that hg branches are constant, while bookmarks are temporary?
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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by sampo on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:02AM (#7392224)
Yeah, in hg named branches the branch name is forever logged as part of the commit. Hg bookmarks and git branches are just pointers to the most recent commit.
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