Why can't I push this change to my 'main' mercurial repository?

Question

I am trying to grok Mercurial and hope I am just getting confused here!

I have a repository (\'main\') that I have cloned (\'clone\'), , both on my own machine. Both wer

Answer 1

Tortoise now has an option Push new branch that may be safer than Force pull or push. The command line tool has a flag --new-branch.

Update: The new tortoise interface makes it a bit harder to find. Switch to the Synchronise view, then click options and select allow push of a new branch.