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That's exactly the same in
git
. The old commits are still there, they just don't show up ingit log
because nothing points to them.Old, unreachable commits will be garbage collected.
Does that not happen with Mercurial? If not that seems like a point against it.
I'm confused, the behavior you just said was "exactly the same in git" is now a problem for Mercurial?
I thought it was exactly the same based on the description.
No the old commit is always there, marked as obsolete with the information of what it became. No holes in history. (Assuming you use the obsolecense markers)