How can I switch to a tag/branch in hg?

Question

I followed the documentation in https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Source_Code/Mercurial and downloaded FF source with:

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.         


        

Answer 1

Once you have cloned the repo, you have everything: you can then hg up branchname or hg up tagname to update your working copy.

UP: hg up is a shortcut of hg update, which also has hg checkout alias for people with git habits.