hg strip

[Ernie Rael]

About histedit...

On 10/4/22 11:22 PM, David Demelier wrote:
> I guess this has to do with the fact that Mercurial team wants to push
> evolve and all other "safe-history" editing commands rather than
> history-rewriting ones like strip, histedit


I thought the old histedit was replaced by one that uses evolve core.

Is that not correct?

-ernie

> and others.
>
> Other than that, I don't think strip should be deprecated. Users have
> the power and as long as you know what you're doing that's fine. I
> don't want Mercurial to be an opinionated SCM.
>
> That said, debugstrip (aliased to strip) isn't marked as deprecated in
> the command help in contrast to rollback
>
> $ hg help rollback
> [...]
> roll back the last transaction (DANGEROUS) (DEPRECATED)
>
> $ hg help strip
> [...]
> hg debugstrip [-k] [-f] [-B bookmark] [-r] REV...
>
> aliases: strip
>
> strip changesets and all their descendants from the repository
>
>
> Regards,
>