How can I create new branch from default branch in Mercurial?

Question

I have the branch name default which is my production branch. Now I want to create development branch from there and work separate on it.

How can I do that without affecting my default branch

Answer 1

Commit or shelve all your current changes, then:

hg branch Name_Of_Branch

This will switch your working code to a branch called *Name_Of_Branch* - NB this branch will not exist in the local repository until you do a hg commit and will not exist for anybody else until you have done a hg push , (or an accepted pull request to an administrator) , and they have done hg pull .