Subject: Re: receive.denyCurrentBranch

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:38:17 -0800

Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that Mercurial did not 
>> attempt to merge. Rather, it created a new branch head in the remote 
>> repository.
>
> So this is the "detached HEAD" idea.  Which contradicts the law of the 
> least surprise.

I do not think so.  It is "adopting the symmetric mothership-satellite
layout, when it suits the user's workflow".