mercurial/commands.py
branchstable
changeset 17984 b74361cf7c0a
parent 17981 e689b0d91546
child 17986 e853d27956fb
child 18122 730b769fb634
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Nov 28 11:20:56 2012 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Tue Nov 27 08:47:35 2012 -0500
@@ -924,6 +924,7 @@
                                        ' exists'),
                                      # i18n: "it" refers to an existing branch
                                      hint=_("use 'hg update' to switch to it"))
+            scmutil.checknewlabel(None, label, 'branch')
             repo.dirstate.setbranch(label)
             ui.status(_('marked working directory as branch %s\n') % label)
             ui.status(_('(branches are permanent and global, '