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Oliver Giesen wrote: > Example: > If you create a magic branch off rev. 1.1.2.2, the branch will > initially receive the branch number 1.1.2.0.0.1 . If you create more > revisions on the 1.1.2.x branch and then try to update to the floating > branch it will get you the tip of the 1.1.2.x branch as expected but if > you commit a revision on the floating branch its branch point will > suddenly become HEAD, e.g. the new revision will be something like > 1.12.2.1 instead of 1.1.2.5.2.1 as I would have expected... then again, > I'm not sure it makes very much of difference in practice except that > it's no longer possible to tell by the revision tree which revision was > based on which... Branches always branch from their trunk, so the new branch is created as if you'd done a tag -b at that point and committed a revision to it. This of course makes it really hard to work out when a branch was created just by looking at it (since it doesn't really exist until that point). Tony