[petsc-dev] Internal and external symbols

[Sean Farley]

Jed Brown writes:

> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> In mercurial, you'd do 'hg bookmark simp', 'hg push -B simp'. Jed would
>> 'hg pull -B simp' and complete the merge.
>>
>
> One notable difference is that a git user does not see these unless they
> look for them. You can have hundreds of such branches without a typical
> user even knowing about them. In contrast, many normal hg commands show you
> these additional heads, often in a way that doesn't scale well.

Oh, also, you wouldn't have to see them in mercurial either. Just 'hg
pull -B simp' to pull only those changesets.