You can delete commits from Hg using 'strip' (enabled via the 'mq' extension). But this is strict deletion (as opposed to marking it for gc after a grace period

You can delete commits from Hg using 'strip' (enabled via the 'mq' extension). But this is strict deletion (as opposed to marking it for gc after a grace period) and you can't push an "unreference this commit", so you need admin access on the remote to strip a commit there. If you push branches to bitbucket for review, the abandoned commits stick around as anonymous heads until you strip them via the web interface, but they still stick around for anyone that pulled from you. The Hg community is working on a system [1] for dealing with this, but it's still not ready for general use and I find it significantly more complicated than Git's model. [1] http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution