Is `hg pull --rebase` analogous to `svn update`?

Question

This question assumes there\'s a \"blessed\" central repository that members of a team

1. clone from
2. push to when they have contributions that they want othe

Answer 1

hg pull --update

would be an equivalent of svn update

As described in this SO question

The hg command push and pull move changes between repositories and update and commit moves changes between your working copy and your local repository.

So in a DVCS, you have 2 notions instead of one:

• local repo (pull/push)
• working directory (which is the only local representation of the "tip" of a repo with SVN)