Question

is the proper way to

hg up bugfix                # <-- use that branch
hg commit --close-branch
hg up another_branch        # <-- use another branch
hg commit --close-branch
hg up default

and now hg heads will only show 1 head? Is this the proper way to close unused branches?

Looks like if we hg up bugfix again and change some file and commit, then that branch will automatically be re-opened and the default branch will show 2 heads again?

Answer 1

Is this the proper way to close unused branches?

Correct. You can also use hg heads -c to show all branches.

Looks like if we hg up bugfix again and change some file and commit, then that branch will automatically be re-opened and the default branch will show 2 heads again?

Also correct. Newer versions of Mercurial will issue an information message about “reopening closed branch”.