Re: Unable to a new branch with VC commit

[Tero Mononen]

Oh, thanks.

It works "correctly" with Git but with Mercurial it doesn't create named 
branch but
a bookmark. Then I found related reported bug:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38425


Thanks,
Tero

On 12/03/2021 11.50, Robert Pluim wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:46:54 +0200, Tero Mononen <tero@ooe.fi> said:
>      Tero> Dear Emacs people,
>      Tero> Most likely I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what.
>
>      Tero> I haven't managed to create a new Mercurial branch in
>      Tero> Emacs. According to manual [1] it should happen with C-u C-x
>      Tero> v v. It does request "New revision or backend". I give name
>      Tero> of the new branch, and then commit changes. Surprisingly,
>      Tero> commit ends up to the active branch instead of the new
>      Tero> one. I.e., it completely ignores my input.
>
>      Tero> I tested the same procedure also with Git and the result was
>      Tero> also the same.
>
> Neither git nor Mercurial fall under the "On centralized version
> control systems" clause of the 'Creating New Branches'
> documentation. You should be able to create a branch on both git and
> Mercurial by doing 'C-u C-x v s', which runs 'vc-create-tag'.
>
> Robert