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I would LOVE to use mercurial. If the concept of a backup bundle was completely removed. When I amend a commit with git, I don't put myself 20 minutes away from recovering that pre-amend commit. If hg comes up with some way to have a flat namespace like git, (ideally with a reflog) I'll be back.

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That whole "back up a part of history so that you could undo stuff later" will be gone as soon as Changeset Evolution [1] is ready. An when it's ready, it will be tremendous.

[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution

Ooo, being able to push rewritten history, that's nice! Seeing that neither Git nor HG handles pushing history rewriting gracefully right now, this would be awesome.

That does indeed sound like it solves the problem. Bravo, can't wait!

I wish I knew what you are talking about- it sounds useful. I use mercurial- I've never used git.

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