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Re:Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds by sampo on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:07AM (#9332121)
> I don't know what you mean by 'several plugins to do branch like things'.

Maybe his knowledge of Mercurial is 5+ years old. In versions before 1.8 (2010 and before), bookmarks was an extension ("module") and you had to add a line in .hgrc to take it into use.

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Re:Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds by stormbrew on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:20AM (#9332149)
No, bookmarks were one of the two built-in versions I was referring to. I'm referring to things like this: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension
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Re:Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds by imakesnowflakes on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @01:52AM (#9332217)
Just curious. What branch like things do you mean, when you say that you need Mq to do it? If you mean things like rebase, cherry pick, folding commits etc, those can be done in better ways by bundled in extensions like rebase, graft and historyedit.

Even some of the Mercurial developers does not like Mq extension much...

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