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Concatenating multiple changesets into one

(See also [:EditingHistory])

Problem

Suppose you want to concatenate the last k changesets of a [:Repository:repository]

into a single, combined changeset

Solution

Execute the following steps:

1: hg -R oldrepo update S

• This [:Update:updates] the [:WorkingDirectory:working directory] to revision S. Specifically, this means that the contents of the working directory are changed to that of revision S, and that S becomes the [:Parent:parent] of the working directory.

2: hg -R oldrepo revert -r tip --all

• 

  This [:Revert:reverts] the working directory to its contents at [:Tip:tip]. Since the parent of the working directory is still S, this means that the combined contents of all changesets between S and S+k show up as the modifications in the working directory.

3: hg -R oldrepo commit -m "Combine changesets S+1..S+k"

• 

  [:Commit:Committing] these modifications creates a new changeset "S+k (combined)", containing combined changesets S+1 to S+k.

4: hg clone -r tip oldrepo newrepo

• 

  BRThis assumes you want to get rid of your individual changesets (which are a dangling branch in oldrepo) and just keep the combined changeset. newrepo will now just have the combined changeset.

This will strip out all other branches, not just the one dangling branch that you don't want.

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