Make another branch default?

Question

I have a Mercurial repo at Bitbucket and on my local machine, both are mirrors, up to date. I created a feature branch, reflected in both repos. I did all my work in the fea

Answer 1

Just merge feature-branch into default then close feature-branch:

$ hg checkout default
$ hg merge feature-branch
$ hg commit
$ hg checkout feature-branch
$ hg commit --close-branch

There is no more clean and sensible way (that I'm aware of) to “make feature-branch the default”.

One thing that wouldn't be as nice, but you could do, is to make a commit to default on top of feature-branch:

$ hg checkout feature-branch
$ hg branch default
$ hg commit

But this would leave two heads in the default branch, which is suboptimal.