Capistrano, Mercury and branches

Question

As far as I understand, although Mercurial has support from branches, the community usually clones repositories instead of creating branches. Similar to the Darcs model, unlike the Git model.

I am deploying a Ruby on Rails application with Capistrano, and I would like to separate it from the development branch. Should I point Capistrano to another repo or use branches?

Has anyone used one model or another branch when working with Capistrano? Any problems with?

Answer 1

yes Mercurial supports several branching patterns , probably the most common cloning.

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Answer 2

config/deploy.rb

set :branch, "your_branch"