Talk:Mercurial vs. Subversion

From APIDesign

<quote>Mercurial would refuse such integration asking the user A to svn update to latest version of the repository first. This is the correct behaviour. However it is not really clueless.</quote>

Not exactly. Mercurial would record the two changes as separate heads (implicit branches). And, by default, it would not allow pushing both to a central repo without a prior merge. But this is just a default. What typically bothers people is they need to merge the two heads to combine their effects. Which is, again, correct, but may seem to clutter history. So you can rebase, if you prefer, explicitly emulating what svn implicitly does. -parren