Pushing to remote repository after merge “creates new remote heads” - is that bad?

Question

1. I initialized a Mercurial project on Machine A, committed my changes and uploaded them to a remote

Answer 1

First: View your changes with hg log. The following didn't help in my case:

• hg pull and hg merge (before you pull check against hg incoming)
• or: hg pull --rebase

But this helped.

hg merge [revision]

I found that I needed to explicitly merge some revisions which looked like heads.