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Mercurial has some warts of it own. Common case of working on something, then wanting to update the repository in the midst of it to get something from a co-worker isn't handled exactly stellar.

So you can shelve. When you have enabled the extension.

If I'm not mistaken, even CVS handled this better.



> hg clone . ../CloneForCoworkerInvestigation

This is way, way better than CVS. Some people complain about how this doesn't work in place, like git or shelve, but I prefer I don't have to change anything in my main repo, like regenerate IDE files, dependency caches etc.

In any event, I've always like how this worked.




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