edit version history (author,date or commit message)

[Kyle Altendorf]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:25 PM, ruby <rubik at sina.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at lazybytes.net> wrote:
>> Ruby <rubik at sina.com> writes:
>>
>>> currently we can not edit version history,
>>>
>>> how about (how to)
>>> editing version history (author,date or commit message)
>>> like editing Tags ?
>>>
>>> so one can edit author,date or commit message many times, and HG logs
>>> every changes.
>>
>> Are you asking for a way to edit these things with a current version of
>> Mercurial or are you asking us to implement a feature for a future
>> version of Mercurial?
>>
>> --
>> Martin Geisler
>
> there's no easy way to do such things, like editing version history
> (author,date or commit message), with a current version of Mercurial ,
> right? ,
>
> wouldn't it be better if it's a feature, if necessary.
> I think there's always some need to edit these things.

I started writing up my own explanation but this is most likely much better:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/EditingHistory

It covers both how you can...  and why you wouldn't want to.

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