Terminology: what to call the trunk

[Benoît Allard]

Greg Ward wrote:
> On 04 December 2008, Matt Mackall said:
>> If your first commit is not on the default branch, you can have a tree
>> with no default branch.
> 
> Cool.  I think.  
> 
>>> Or is "default" just the *default* name of the trunk?  I.e. can I
>>> decide that I want to call the trunk "trunk" instead of "default"?
>> Sorry, no. The branch is -actually- named '' and 'default' is an alias
>> for that.
> 
> Hmmm.  I'll have to play with this, but I'm thinking of this:
> 
>   hg init
>   hg branch trunk
>   # start hacking and committing...
> 
> Then *poof* the branch that I chose to call "trunk" is the mainline of
> development.  Is this likely to cause problems?  I.e. are there
> commands/extensions/tools out there that expect branch '' (aka
> 'default') to exist?

clone automatically update to the default branch, so you might also need 
to `hg update trunk` after each clone.

Regards,
Benoit
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