D3887: rebase: add --no-backup option

khanchi97 (Sushil khanchi) phabricator at mercurial-scm.org
Thu Jul 5 10:01:47 EDT 2018


khanchi97 added a comment.


  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3887#60749, @yuja wrote:
  
  > >   Added --no-backup option which gives functionality to
  > >   not save backup copies of files.
  >
  > Can you elaborate why we want this option?
  
  
  The idea was to add --no-backup option in all those commands which alter history. For this one, let say if someone wants to abort a rebase in between then a --no-backup option should be available (same as histedit)
  
  > I'm -0 on this because it's unclear when the --no-backup option makes a
  >  difference. --abort isn't the only way to strip revisions while rebasing.
  
  Oh, I thought --abort is the only way to strip revisions. Shall I try to cover all other cases also where we strip csets; Or If it is not required I can leave it here.

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