[issue2629] MQ strip keeps empty .i files/dirs, plus

[Steffen Daode Nurpmeso]

New submission from Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden at gmail.com>:

I'll attach a shell script which cd's to $TMPDIR and creates a hg-test 
directory.  It'll show what i mean maybe more exact than the text.

While testing how to work with Mercurial in respect to branches, i've used 
MQ's 'strip' command to remove an entire branch.  The dirs/files therein 
however were kept in .hg/data as empty stubs???  And cloning that repo 
clones those empty stubs, too (unless --pull is used).

My question: is this a bug that will/will that behaviour be addressed, or do 
i simply misuse Mercurial?  I.e., in the latter case, shall i simply accept 
that there is no way to delete a branch?

P.S.: i really like HG beside that, it's somewhat easy to use and offers a 
really good help which can be understood by non-heroes which think in SHA-1 
hashes.

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messages: 15145
nosy: sdaoden
priority: feature
status: unread
title: MQ strip keeps empty .i files/dirs, plus

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