How to catch-up named mercurial branch from default branch without merging the two into one?

mercurial branch

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hg merge default from your named branch.

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Dynite

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Updated on June 18, 2020

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Dynite about 4 years
I have two branches in mercurial..
```
default    named
|r1
|r2
|r3 --------         named branch created here.
|            |r4
|            |r5
| r6         |
|            |r7
|            |
-----------> | r8    How do I achieve this catch-up?
|            |
```
I want to update the named branch from default, but I'm not ready to merge the branches yet. How do I achieve this?

Edit:

Additionally, what would the operation be using the GUI? Is it.. right-click r6, merge with..., r8,... then what? commit to named branch?
Dynite about 14 years

Thanks - what about in the GUI (tortoise hg?)
bentsai over 12 years

For TortoiseHg, you want to update to r8, then right-click on r6 (default) and select "Merge with local..." in the context menu. This will bring the changes from default into your named branch, since you are sitting there.