ANN: subsume extension

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 13:38 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 13:27, Peter Arrenbrecht
> <peter.arrenbrecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I suppose this could be mentioned in the guide for getting rid of
> > unwanted heads. We might also consider having this in Hg's core, as an
> > option to merge.
> 
> I'd like that. Maybe hg merge --discard? The word 'subsume' makes me
> think a little too hard.

I don't think this is the right direction. Dummy merge is a hack that
messes up history. We should instead improve head closing and
surrounding logic to the point where people don't care any more.

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