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* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Creating Branches): Add instructions
for git/Mercurial.
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@ -1611,6 +1611,10 @@ branch ID for a branch starting at the current revision. For example,
if the current revision is 2.5, the branch ID should be 2.5.1, 2.5.2,
and so on, depending on the number of existing branches at that point.
This procedure will not work for distributed version control systems
like git or Mercurial. For those systems you should use the prefix
argument to @code{vc-create-tag} (@kbd{C-u C-x v s}) instead.
To create a new branch at an older revision (one that is no longer
the head of a branch), first select that revision (@pxref{Switching
Branches}). Your procedure will then differ depending on whether you