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