Mercurial Pushing closed branches

Question

I'm trying to figure out why Mercurial thinks I'm trying to create a new remote branch in this situation:

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Is it just trying to inform me that the branch will show up in the meta-data as a closed branch?

I'm on Mercurial v1.6.1023

Edit: the only branch on the remote repository is named "default"

Answer 1

By default hg push is going to push all changesets in your local repository that are not in the remote repository. If you have some changes on a local branch (Environment_Switching in your case) -- even a closed branch -- they'll go too unless you explicitly exclude them using hg push -b default (assuming you haven't merged that branch back onto default).

To answer your question, it's just a warning that you're creating a new remote branch.

EDIT: hg push -r default and hg push -b default are equivalent. From the output for hg help revs:

Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions. ...text removed for brevity... A branch name denotes the tipmost revision of that branch.

Pushing the tipmost revision of a branch will also push its ancestors, which are the rest of the changesets on the branch.