What does it mean for different segments of the graph in the Mercurial Repository Explorer to have different colors?
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A:
Mainly to help distinguishing the branches and their merges, including merges from anonymous branches (See A Guide to Branching in Mercurial).
For instance, for the named branch 'stable', you will see:
VonC
2010-09-09 05:56:56
Why did you circle the things you did on the diagram?
Casebash
2010-09-09 12:12:16
@Casebash: to illustrates all those commits are part of 'stable' branch (one local, one fetched) the second 'stable' branch has been merge in the local 'stable' branch. Each time a branch starts from local 'stable' branch, that later branch change color.
VonC
2010-09-09 12:26:22