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

[Augie Fackler]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 11:05:18AM -0500, Sean Farley wrote:
>
> 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.

I'm +1 on this patch as well, but unwilling to go so far as queueing
it, as I'm not sure what mpm will think.

It may be worth adding a long-form-only --no-backup option for people
that really like blowing their own feet off. Maybe even
--no-backup-please-eat-my-data.

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