The motivation is simple: it's nicer to avoid gating basic
functionality.
To reduce the risk of people shooting themselves in the feet, --confirm is now
the default, unless the extensions is loaded..
For review of the body of the purge command, use this instead of what
hg/phabricator will show (the block of code is modified, not just
moved):
This is not the correct relnotes file anymore. We need to move existing one to 5.7 and then create and empty next one.