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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> If you had paid attention, you would have noticed that Mercurial did not 
>> attempt to merge. Rather, it created a new branch head in the remote 
>> repository.
>
> So this is the "detached HEAD" idea.  Which contradicts the law of the 
> least surprise.

I do not think so.  It is "adopting the symmetric mothership-satellite
layout, when it suits the user's workflow".