SourceTree Windows Mercurial - reopen closed branch

Question

When I try to reopen a closed branch I get an error saying:

hg branch -y branchname abort: a branch of the same name already exists

(use 'hg update' to switch to it)

Completed with errors, see above.

Answer 1

To reopen a closed branch you use hg update instead of hg branch. Just use hg update branchname then next time you commit the branch will be marked as open.