Some things I don't Understand

[David Frey]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:39:25 -0600, Sean Kelley <sean.v.kelley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Peer Sommerlund
> <peer.sommerlund at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With bookmarks you could make what feels like a named branch, e.g.
>> "scratch-feature", but if you later decide to merge the branch into your
>> trunk, you can simply discard the bookmark, and your repository will
> carry
>> no trace of the name.
> 
> In that regard, I would really prefer then that Bookmarks include the
> strip function built-in so when I delete the bookmark I can literally
> blow away the short lived branch.
> 


Even if you merge the bookmark head with your main head, the history of
commits under the bookmark will remain in the repository.  What were you
hoping to strip out?