Mercurial Tips and Tricks

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Switching between branches:
hg update -C branch1
hg update -C branch2

Commit to a branch:


hg update -C branch1                 # switch branch.
hg pull                              # get latest changes.
hg update                            # get latest changes.
hg add                               # commit your changes. 
hg commit -m "some message here."    # commit your changes.
hg push                              # push changes out to the rest of the world.
## You may be warned about making mutliple heads.
## If this is the first commit to the branch, then force the commit by using -f.