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diff mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt @ 32133:435a3842ca3a
internals: document that "branches" is a legacy wire command
Modern clients use a different discovery mechanism.
| author | Siddharth Agarwal <sid0@fb.com> |
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| date | Wed, 03 May 2017 14:07:14 -0700 |
| parents | 7283719e2bfd |
| children | fffd3369aa83 |
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--- a/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt Wed May 03 10:30:57 2017 -0700 +++ b/mercurial/help/internals/wireprotocol.txt Wed May 03 14:07:14 2017 -0700 @@ -632,6 +632,9 @@ branches -------- +(Legacy command used for discovery in old clients. Clients with ``getbundle`` +use the ``known`` and ``heads`` commands instead.) + Obtain ancestor changesets of specific nodes back to a branch point. Despite the name, this command has nothing to do with Mercurial named branches.