I&#39;ve finished working on a feature branch `feature-x`. I want to merge results back to the `default` branch and close `feature-x` in order to get rid of it in the output of `hg branches`.

I came up with the following scenario, but it has some issues:

    $ hg up default
    $ hg merge feature-x
    $ hg ci -m merge
    $ hg up feature-x
    $ hg ci -m &#39;Closed branch feature-x&#39; --close-branch

So the `feature-x` branch (changests `40`-`41`) is closed, but there is *one new head*, the closing branch changeset `44`, that will be listed in `hg heads` every time:

    $ hg log ...
    o  44 Closed branch feature-x
    |
    | @  43 merge
    |/|
    | o  42 Changeset C
    | |
    o |  41 Changeset 2
    | |
    o |  40 Changeset 1
    |/
    o  39 Changeset B
    |
    o  38 Changeset A
    |

**Update**: It appears that since version 1.5 Mercurial doesn&#39;t show heads of closed branches in the output of `hg heads` anymore.

Is it possible to close a merged branch without leaving one more head? Is there more correct way to close a feature branch?

Related questions:

* [Is there a downside to this Mercurial workflow: named branch &quot;dead&quot; head?][1]

  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3638987/is-there-a-downside-to-this-mercurial-workflow-named-branch-dead-head


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How to correctly close a feature branch in Mercurial?