tla-like changesets

[Stefan Ring]

>> 1. Not retaining history -- when working in a repository with strict
>> guidelines on the commit statements, I don't want to bother building
>> such an elaborate text for every intermittent commit several times a
>> day. So I just want to tweak and beat the thing into the final shape and
>> only then commit to the official repo, with a single good and clean
>> commit message. I also don't like cluttering the official repository
>> with all those intermittent commits. I could do that with a changeset
>> but not with a merge-directive.
> 
> Merge directives are a means of transmitting changes.  If you don't need
> to transmit the changes, you don't need need an intermediate file at
> all.  You just need a merge.  In this case, you would merge, then do
> revert --forget-merges.

Woah, that's extremely cool! Thanks a lot! Didn't manage to find this on 
my own so far.