[Bug 4269] New: add --close-merged option to commit

[mercurial-bugs at selenic.com]

http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4269

          Priority: normal
            Bug ID: 4269
                CC: mercurial-devel at selenic.com
          Assignee: bugzilla at selenic.com
           Summary: add --close-merged option to commit
          Severity: feature
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: mitchnull+hg at gmail.com
          Hardware: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
           Version: unspecified
         Component: Mercurial
           Product: Mercurial

When working on feature branches, usually the feature branch is closed (with
--close-branch) when the final merge is done.  The normal workflow is something
like this:

<work on feature-a>
hg ci -m "closing before merge" --close-branch
hg up default
hg merge feature-a
hg ci -m "merged feature-a"

or:

<work on feature-a>
hg up default
hg merge feature-a
hg ci -m "merged feature-a"
hg up feature-a
hg ci -m "closed after merge" --close-branch

the first approach requires some discipline and sometimes the closing gets
forgotten, leading to the second approach.  It would allow a nicer workflow if
closing of the feature branch could be done at the time the merge commit is
done, like this:

<work on feature-a>
hg up default
hg merge feature-a
hg ci -m "merged feature-a" --close-merged

the last command would close the feature-a branch and (simultaneously) commit
the merge to the default branch.

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