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Comment by paulddraper | Hacker News Reader

Mercurial is nowhere near the idilic interface you imply.

E.g. I challenge you to figure out how to use its interface to delete a branch.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41968796/how-to-delete-a-...

This has nothing to do with the interface and everything with the policy choice of not having mutable history on the server.

If you do enable mutable history (with evolve), then you do it with:

  hg prune <revisions you want to remove>
  hg push

You can close a branch, which makes it stop appearing in the UI unless you explicitly ask for closed branches. You can never fully delete a branch since the branch is part of the commit metadata (as it should be, IMO).

not to mention that a git branch is NOT your typical VCS branch. It's an ephemeral named head, nothing more than a tag (that lives outside of the normal tag interface).

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