[PATCH] strip: de-fang --backup option (BC)

[Sean Farley]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso writes:

> On Sun, 2014-07-06 at 15:37 -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org>
>> # Date 1404603671 14400
>> #      Sat Jul 05 19:41:11 2014 -0400
>> # Node ID 5ae152e7b6df2809f5c6445058850086e1f0175f
>> # Parent  0022ee690446dcf42075780ff9022d8f7d8e69f0
>> strip: de-fang --backup option (BC)
>
> I have good reason to suspect that at least one Facebook employee
> swore hg off forever after getting bitten by `hg strip -b`. This is a
> very dangerous hidden land mine. I really urge you to consider
> accepting this BC.

I'll chime in and say that I am in favor of this.