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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:20:13+00:00

Let’s say I have a mercurial project and I do this: hg branch whatever

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Let’s say I have a mercurial project and I do this:

hg branch whatever
touch newfile
hg add newfile
hg commit -m "added newfile" --close-branch
hg up -C default
hg merge whatever
hg push
abort: push creates new remote branch 'whatever'!
(did you forget to merge? use push -f to force)

How can I remove the branch so that hg branches -c will not show it there? It’s kind of frustrating that this is not allowing me to push to bitbucket. I read the Documentation, but the first two points I’m probably not following correctly ( since I keep getting the error, even though I merged ). The third point, about removing via clone I don’t understand how to do, since I always end up with the feature branch in my repo too.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, first of all, you don’t have to remove that branch.

    The warning is just that, a warning that you should double-check that you’re indeed doing the right thing, and not pushing a branch somewhere it doesn’t belong.

    However, if you want to keep the branch, just do what the warning says, push with the -f option:

    hg push -f

    Now, on the other hand, if you do want to remove it, here’s the ways you can do it:

    Strip

    If you have the “mq” extension enabled, you can strip off the changeset:

     hg strip REV

    This removes the revision REV, and everything that follows from it, from the repository.

    You should only do this in a clone if you’re unsure about the effect or whether you really want this

    MQ

    Another way is to pop the changesets you don’t want to push into a queue. I don’t know if this will work with a whole branch, neither do I know the exact command for this.

    Clone

    Basically you clone what you want to keep

    hg clone --branch default original newclone

    This will clone from original to newclone and only clone the default branch. If you want to clone more than the default branch, you can repeat the --branch NAME option for each branch you want to clone.

    Again, make sure you experiment with fresh clones and verify that you get what you want before pushing anything to the central repository.

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