How to remove accidental branch in TortoiseHg?

Question

(I am a relative newcomer to TortoiseHg, so bear with me :-) I use TortoiseHg on two machines to talk to my remote source repository. I made changes on one machine, committed th

Answer 1

I had a branch I didn't want, but found I could not merge the branch (or it was very difficult for me to figure out how to merge) because it contained a conflict based on a file name case change.

Ultimately, I decided to hg commit --close-branch. Since the branch had existed only on my local repo, and not the repo I had cloned from, the subsequent hg push didn't even bother to push the closed branch out to the master repo! Very convenient. At that point, all I had to do to eliminate it entirely was delete my local repo and re-clone from the "master".