hg equivalent of git push -f

[Jeremy .]

I've been thinking of what it would take to convert my work place from git to hg, and the one thing which doesn't seem to have any equivalent is git push -f. hg may also have a push -f, but it leaves dangling anonymous heads which have to be stripped on the server. Evolve may help, but it doesn't like changing branches which have been pushed to a publishing repository, and we don't need or want the overhead of keeping obsolete changesets and markers.


Some examples of how we use it:

1) Whenever our CI server sees pushes to a particular branch, it builds it and deploys to a sandbox. Developers can experiment with deploying their changes by force-pushing whatever they want to this branch, no need to worry about merges with some old experiment.

2) We use feature branches. Developers frequently force-push their work in progress, so that others can see it, and for the side-effect of (ab)using GitHub as backup.


Is it possible to easily do this in mercurial?

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