Remove experimental branch

Question

How do I remove a feature branch in mercurial if I want to remove it completely? It should be stripped from the history and I don't want to merge the changes in another branch (just throw the code away).

I know that I can clone my other branches to a new repository like described here but that does not seem to be a clean solution.

Solution

I found a working solution here.

It works by using hg strip from the mq extension:

$ hg strip my_pruned_branch

As mentioned in the comments, this should only be used for unpublished changesets.