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Re:GitFlow considered harmful by glandium on Friday June 19, 2015 @07:29PM (#9748282)
Mercurial branches are not meant to be used for short-lived feature branches, though. As "hg branch" puts it: "branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?".
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Re:GitFlow considered harmful by giulianob on Friday June 19, 2015 @08:58PM (#9748507)
You can close a branch and it will not show up as being active but you still have the info for every commit which is what makes history readable.
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