histedit: delete to drop The default behaviour to forbid this makes a lot of sense for novice users because it's safeguarding them from dangerous behavior but making it configurable will be apprieciated by power users in at least one big organization. It allows an user to look an histedit rules from declarative perspective and make the rules reflect the state after histedit. If we can move lines t move commits why can't we drop lines to drop commits? Let's put this behind config knob and inform users about this feature the very moment they are trying to use it so they can choose desired behaviour.