Why is hg fetch a deprecated extension? [closed]
- by Jan
Mercurial's fetch extenson conveniently pulls and merges from a remote repository. Recently, this feature has been deprecated by the developers. They recommend avoiding it and it is on the unloved features list.
It is useful in many cases to be able to pull and initiate a merge with one command (which hg pull -u doesn't do). I assume there is a…