Feature request: mark "dead ends"

[Marijn Vriens]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Hans Meine
<meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> in one of my repositories I have checked in some changeset X for feature A
> which I could never made to work.  Later, I have restarted from X's parent
> and
> some dozens of revisions later I finished the same feature A in another
> way.
> Now I have this extra head with the unfinished changes which I don't need
> anymore.
>
> This extra head gets in my way when using "hgview" (it always appears at
> the
> very top, although it is very old).
>
> AFAICS, I have three options:
> 1) Use a dummy merge to make the unnamed branch inactive.  That would look
> like I actually used code from my first try, which I did not.
> 2) Use strip/mq/convert etc. to remove this head from my repo.  I have no
> intention to do this.
> 3) Leave it as it is, and try to fix hgview for example.
>
> I would like to have option 4) - mark the branch as inactive without
> merging
> it.  Apparently, this is not yet possible with hg, right?
>
> What do you people think?  (I bet most people are content with opion 1, but
> what do you think about 4?)


+1

I also have these dead artifacts floating arround. I have been stripping
them out (method 2), but it's far from ideal (history loss).

Regards,
        Marijn.


>
>
> Have a nice day,
>  Hans
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