commit: allow to close branch when committing change over a closed head Otherwise, an explicit other commit become necessary, which seems both silly and verbose. This is useful when merging closed heads on the same branches, for example when merging multiple repositories together.

Set up

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

Try to import an empty patch

  $ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
  > EOF
  applying patch from stdin
  abort: stdin: no diffs found
  [10]

No dirstate backups are left behind

  $ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
  .hg/dirstate