This is a Mercurial plugin that enables simpler branch management. Because named branches were only recently added, feature branch workflows that rely heavly on named branches can use a little extra love.

$hg harvest BRANCH_NAME [TARGET_BRANCH]

Close the specified branch and merge it into the default branch, or the named target branch. If the merge fails, you will need to resolve and commit the merge manually.

$hg close BRANCH_NAME

Close the specified branch. This command does not affect your working directory.

$hg switch BRANCH_NAME

Switch to the specified branch. This is essentially an alias of hg update -C.

$hg branchdiff BRANCH_NAME

Shows all the branch changes consolidated into a single diff. Technically this is a diff between the branch creation point and the tip of the branch.