bitbucket, “hg push” and “hg update”

Question

If I start out with a local mercurial repo, which I consider to be the \"main\" repo (pardon me my dvcs lords), and intend to use bitbucket as a backup and issue tracking facili

Answer 1

No need to do a hg update on your local machine. Update is used when data is pushed TO your local repository, and you are pushing FROM your local repository.