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

[Siddharth Agarwal]

On 07/08/2014 06:49 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> 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.

strip already has --no-backup.

I'm an enthusiastic +1 on this.

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