[PATCH] add support for marking changesets as dead

[Martin Geisler]

Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> writes:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Henrik Stuart <hg at hstuart.dk>
> # Date 1295774638 -3600
> # Node ID 7bd977fdbca15da3c69ea7ef01df987b95475b11
> # Parent  0d1dca7d2a041cb1cb6c6bd90608aa87068bde02
> add support for marking changesets as dead

I saw Benoit asked about the name yesterday evening on IRC, saying that
it was overly negative and that Matt commented that it means all sorts
of weird things in (US?) English.

I've myself started to think of the feature as a feature to *abandon*
branches. So I think of *abandoned heads* and their ancestors then form
an *abandoned branch*. I quite like this: the word "abandon" implies
that nothing has been deleted or removed, but merely left behind and so
it fits the semantics quite well.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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