We are just switching to Mercurial where I work this week. I'm starting to read material, and was hoping somebody could succinctly answer this question:
What's the difference between Mercurial's "tip" tag and the "default" branch?
What’s the difference between Mercurial’s “tip” tag and the “default” branch
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Best Answer
tip can be on a different branch than default.
hg uses the latest revision your "-r somewhat" matches. if somewhat is a branch, it updates to its latest head. if somewhat is a tag it updates to the revision this tag is associated with.